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Biography 'Madam' by Debby Applegate explores how the US alcohol ban brought high society and the underworld together - and how a young woman exploited this for fame and fortune

FICTION The Hunger of Crows by Richard Chiappone Thirty-something Carla Merino finds herself living in her camper shell in Homer, Alaska, waitressing to st

Debby Applegate discusses her new biography of Polly Adler, and Matthew Pearl talks about “The Taking of Jemima Boone.”

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I Love Lucy, in which Ball co-starred with husband Desi Arnaz, was the toast of 1950s America. But off-screen, matters were grimly different

Welcome to Forward Reads, your monthly tour of the Jewish literary landscape. I’m a culture writer at the Forward, and I spend a lot of time

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Just seven years after arriving at Ellis Island, Polly Adler ran a highly successful bordellos in New York, catering to an exclusive clientele.

A salacious new book examines the debauched life of Polly Adler - NYCs most notorious madam during the Jazz Age whose clients were famous mobsters, socialites, writers and politicians.

A new biography by Pulitzer Prize-winner Debby Applegate traces the rise and fall of an icon of the Prohibition Era.