Grit to Glitz

In 1924, aged 19 and with a pistol under her seat, Emily ‘Mickey’ Hahn drove 2,400 miles across America in a model T-Ford, dressed as a man.

Whether she was hanging out in the jazz bars of Harlem, living with tribes in the Belgian Congo, hiking across Central Africa or rubbing shoulders with the glitterati in opium dens or Shanghai’s opulent Cathay Hotel — Mickey sure had one extraordinary life. In an evening of original music, Chanteuse Sunitra Martinelli of Mélange à Trois recounts the prolific author’s trailblazing adventures and loves.