The Sunwise Turn

The Sunwise Turn, A Modern Bookshop was a bookshop in New York City that served as a literary salon and gathering-place for F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alfred Kreymborg, Maxwell Bodenheim, Peggy Guggenheim (an intern in 1920), Theodore Dreiser, Robert Frost, Harold Loeb, John Dos Passos and others.

[2] Its papers — those of its founders and of the bookshop itself — are held by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

[3] The bookshop showed art as well as books; Guggenheim credited the shop with spurring her love of collecting.

[4] In addition to acting as an exhibition and performance space, the shop published five illustrated poetry broadsides and at least ten books between 1916 - 1923.

(Jenison would go on to publish an account of the shop's early years, Sunwise Turn: A Human Comedy of Bookselling [E.P.

Sunwise Turn Bookstore at its original location at 2 E. 31st. St. circa 1916. Photograph from p. 16 of Beatrice Wood's autobiography, "I Shock Myself."