{"product_id":"9781594205989","title":"Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor the magazine’s centenary celebration, an anthology of pieces from the early golden age of \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In honor of the 100th anniversary of \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, B\u003ci\u003eohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates the publication’s astonishing early catalogue of writers, with works by Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, P. G. Wodehouse, Jean Cocteau, Colette, Gertrude Stein, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sherwood Anderson, Robert Benchley, Langston Hughes—and many others. \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair \u003c\/i\u003eeditor 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.\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells\u003c\/i\u003e features great writers on great topics, 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 Maynard Keynes on the collapse in money value, Thomas Mann on how films move the human heart, Alexander Woollcott on Harpo Marx, Carl Sandburg on Charlie Chaplin, Djuna Barnes on James Joyce, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., on Joan Crawford, and Dorothy Parker on a host of topics ranging from why she hates actresses to why she hasn’t married. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays reflect the rich period of their creation while simultaneously addressing topics that would be recognizable in the magazine today, such as how women should navigate work and home life; our destructive fascination with the entertainment industry and with professional sports; the collapse of public faith in the financial industry; and, as Aldous Huxley asks herein, “What, Exactly, Is Modern?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering readers an inebriating swig from that great cocktail shaker of the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the age of Gatsby, \u003ci\u003eBohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells\u003c\/i\u003e showcases unforgettable writers in search of how to live well in a changing era. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47045982290160,"sku":"9781594205989","price":27.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781594205989_p0.jpg?v=1763809824","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781594205989","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}