“It’s French, therefore it is classy.” –Frank Cullen, historian of vaudeville and variety theater, in “Stateside, part one,” an episode of the BBC Radio program “Palaces of Pleasure.” Since Tor Books has just published my fantasy novel, The Glass Magician, which is set in vaudeville in 1905, in a New York City not our own, … Continue reading Fantastic History #56: What is Vaudeville? by Caroline Stevermer