New York Madness
Maxwell Bodenheim
January 1, 2025
ISBN 9798218548285 / Paperback / 204 pages / $15.99

The roaring return of one of Bodenheim's most audacious novels, New York Madness, originally published in 1933 and now revived in a new edition.

Set amid the jazz-lit streets and speakeasies of early 1930s New York, this tale charts the wild lives of two young women as they are swept up in the bohemian pulse of Manhattan’s underbelly.

"He has overtaken Honoré Balzac at last and is now treading on the heels of Guy de Maupassant. . . . Bodenheim has his district dead to rights."
— George Currie, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 30, 1933

"Maxwell Bodenheim has never written a more fascinating, sweeping story, reflecting New York in its own racy lingo!' Read it and decide for yourself: Could these girls be blamed for their almost wanton lives? Or were they just helpless victims of NEW YORK MADNESS?"
— From the back cover of the 1951 Avon paperback reissue of New York Madness