Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells - The Best of Early Vanity Fair

Offering readers an inebriating swig from the great cocktail shaker of the Roaring Twenties--the Jazz Age, the age of Gatsby--Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells showcases unforgettable writers in search of how to live well in a changing era. Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter introduces these fabulous pieces written between 1913 and 1936, when the magazine published a Murderers' Row of the world's leading literary lights, including: F. Scott Fitzgerald on what a magazine should be Clarence Darrow on equality e. e. cummings on Calvin Coolidge D. H. Lawrence on women Djuna Barnes on James Joyce John Maynard Keynes on the collapse in money value Dorothy Parker on a host of topics, from why she hates actresses to why she hasn't married

Product details

• Authors: Graydon Carter, David Friend
• Assisted by: Graydon Carter (Editor), David Friend (Editor)
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2015
• EAN: 9780143127901
• ISBN: 978-0-14-312790-1
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies