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What's more elementary to 20th-century American bohemia than a studied, conflicted hatred of the bourgeoisie? According to this bohemia's most compelling recent historian, the answer is a few modest but theatrical restaurants. In American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century (2000), Christine Stansell bypasses the Provincetown Theater, Mabel Dodge's drawing room, and other familiar Greenwich Village landmarks in the hunt for bohemian ground zero. The source of the "lyrical left" milieu of Manhattan's 19-teens--fusing sexual, political, and writerly radicalisms with a hedonism that left nostalgia cannot forget--is instead tracked down esoteric ...