While a famed, glamorous women’s hotel like the Barbizon might allow the romantic mythology of “hotel residence living” in the mid-twentieth century to endure, Daniel M. Lavery’s Women’s Hotel paints such a unique setup and period in history as more Girl, Interrupted than, shall we say, Gossip Girl. The “women’s hotel” of Lavery’s imagination is called the Biedermeier, and it knows that it’s “beta” at … Continue reading Daniel M. Lavery’s Women’s Hotel Isn’t Just an Ode to a Certain Time, But to the Cast-Offs and Misfits of Society Always Trying to Find a Loophole to Get By