Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader E-BOOK

"I sing only the Ego and the individual. So does in secret each man and woman and child who breathes, but is afraid to sing it aloud." - MM, 1917

Mary MacLane (1881-1929) was the first of the modern media personalities: a pioneer in self-revelation, in defiance of established rules, in living on her own terms - and writing about it. At age 19 she burst upon the world out of Butte, Montana with a journal - I Await the Devil's Coming - of her private thoughts and longings that brought national then international attention. Through the books and newspaper articles that followed she created a completely new, individual voice decades ahead of its time. She influenced Gertrude Stein, inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald, and was hailed by America's greatest writers and everyday people on the street. And though she inspires film, stage, and music projects to this day - though she is quoted on and off the Internet - the writer behind the writing has remained unknown until now.

HUMAN DAYS: A MARY MACLANE READER features the complete texts of all her books (with expurgated passages restored), her colorful newspaper writing (much of it never before reprinted), an intriguing 1902 interview, the first viewing ever of her striking personal letters, illuminating introductions to each era in her life, and comprehensive notes that open the door to her influences and the age that she came from and impacted so strikingly. A foreword from actress Bojana Novakovic provides a contemporary artist's creative appreciation of MacLane's still-powerful effect upon readers.

Michael R. Brown is an American author/editor who published Mary MacLane: Herself, a first-ever biography of the enigmatic writer. Previously he'd published the first MacLane anthology, Tender Darkness, released the well-reviewed experimental memoir She and I: A Fugue, and in 2014 edited the acclaimed Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader. He is now completing several projects including a multi-volume study of primary sources on MacLane through the years. He lives in Northern Italy.

"Mary MacLane, 1902's Racy, Angsty Teenage Diarist, wrote long before provocative, confessional writing was a genre of its own. Her diaries ignited a national uproar, ushering in a new era for women's voices. Her elegant, ambitious embrace of full-disclosure had opened a door to what was possible for women." - The Atlantic "She comes off the page quivering with life. Moving." - London Times "Mary MacLane's first book was the first of the confessional diaries ever written in this country, and it was a sensation." - N.Y. Times ("She had a short but fiery life of writing and misadventure, and her writing was a template for the confessional memoirs that have become ubiquitous." - The New Yorker "One of the most fascinatingly self-involved personalities of the 20th century." - The Age "In a pre-soundbite age she already knew how to draw blood in one direct sentence. Mary MacLane - who openly resisted the idea that she was like everyone else, of her time or any other - lived the dream, as we say nowadays, and the sun of the wide, bright world has come to shine on her again." - The Awl "Miss MacLane stands as the greatest sensationalist of a sensational day … She dares to tell to all the world what most people try to keep profoundly guarded … She stands for truth and dares the courage of her convictions." - From hundreds of letters-to-the-editor on her first book