In honor of the 100th anniversary of "Vanity Fair" magazine, B"ohemians, Bootleg
gers, Flappers, and Swells "celebrates the publication's astonishing early catal
ogue of writers, with works by Dorothy Parker, Noel Coward, P. G. Wodehouse, Jea
n Cocteau, Colette, Gertrude Stein, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sherwood Anderson,
Robert Benchley, Langston Hughes--and many others. "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.
"Bo
hemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells" features great writers on great topi
cs, including F. Scott Fitzgerald on what a magazine should be, Clarence Darrow
on equality, D. H. Lawrence on women, e.e. cummings on Calvin Coolidge, John May
nard Keynes on the collapse in money value, Thomas Mann on how films move the hu
man heart, Alexander Woollcott on Harpo Marx, Carl Sandburg on Charlie Chaplin,
Djuna Barnes on James Joyce, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., on Joan Crawford, and Dorot
hy Parker on a host of topics ranging from why she hates actresses to why she ha
sn't married.
