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The Wild Party Carla Speed McNeil Not the tourist’s New York-theBy Joseph Moncure March, illustrated by Art Spiegelman. Published by Pantheon. Softcover, 120 pages, B&W, 1999. Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black and white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's The Wild Party, a lost classic from 1928. The inventive and varied page designs offer perfect counterpoint to the staccato tempo of this hard boiled jazz age tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. "Spiegelman's drawings are like