Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells

Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells by Editor Graydon Carter

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

Graydon Carteris the editor ofVanity Fair. The American edition ofVanity Fairwas launched by publisher Conde Nast in 1913. Under the stewardship of editor Frank Crowninshield, who assigned most of the pieces in this volume, the magazine was a literary and visual treasure of the Jazz Age and featured an incomparable slate of writers through 1936, when it was folded intoVogueas a casualty of the Great Depression.Vanity Fairwas revived in 1983. Carter has been its editor since 1992.

David Friend, a writer, editor, producer, curator, and formerlyLifemagazine's director of photography, isVanity Fair's editor of creative development.

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ISBN 13	9781594205989
ISBN 10	1594205981
Titel	Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells
Autor	Editor Graydon Carter
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Penguin Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2014-10-30
Seitenanzahl	420
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