I've Come to Stay: A Love Comedy of Bohemia

Mary Heaton Vorse knew this world intimately. A journalist, labor activist, and genuine iconoclast, she moved through Greenwich Village's tangled streets when they pulsed with radical art and even more radical ideas. In this sparkling romantic comedy, she turns her keen eye on the poets, painters, and philosophers who convinced themselves they had escaped the suffocating rules of bourgeois society only to invent new ones. The story follows lovers navigating the bohemian maze, where passionate convictions about art and life collide with the simpler, messier matter of the heart. Vorse pokes gentle fun at every sacred cow: the poet who quotes himself at dinner, the painter whose theories outweigh his talent, the thinker who has read enough to confuse opinion with wisdom. Yet there's real affection beneath the wit. This is a portrait of a specific moment in American culture, when the Village was still a promises rather than a memory, when people believed living differently might actually change the world. The comedy still lands, the romance still charms, and the satire still pinches precisely the people who deserve it.