Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writting

How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? The author, David Yaffe, explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropiating the style, tones, and innovations of jazz, and demonstrating that the poetics of jazz has both been assimilated into and deeply affected, the development of 20th century American literature.