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