Bookman, March 1921
John Farrar
Play
Length 6 h 3 min
Chapters 26
First published 1921
This precursor to The New Yorker magazine features several Algonquin Roundtable regulars, including Broun, Woolcott, and Morley. Editor is John C. Farrar, an American editor, writer and publisher. Farrar founded two publishing companies — Farrar & Rinehart and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ( Matt Pierard)
Chapters
1
The Elder Critic and The Young Enthusiast, by Heywood Broun Read by Elanor 12:29
2
Hiker At Midnight, by Carl Sandburg (poem) Read by Larry Wilson 1:11
3
The World's Most Curious Books, by Walter H. Blumenthal Read by Lazlo 13:21
4
The Curious Case of Kenelm Digby, by Christopher Morley Read by VfkaBT 39:29
5
Child and Wind, by Lola Ridge (poem) Read by Elanor 1:11
6
Murray Hill Sees Mr. Chesterton, by Murray Hill Read by Devorah Allen 18:57
7
Apotheosis, by Keith Preston (poem) Read by VfkaBT 0:47
8
Dreiser - After Twenty Years, by Edward H. Smith Read by VfkaBT 51:25
9
The Poems of the Month, by Louis Untermeyer Read by Larry Wilson 8:13
10
America and the Young Intellectual, by Harold Stearns Read by VfkaBT 29:54
11
A Talk With Charles Dickens's Office Boy, by Catherine Van Dyke Read by VfkaBT 14:05
12
Maxwell Struthers Burt, by Blanche Colton Williams Read by VfkaBT 23:46
13
The Alleged Culture of New England, by Richard Burton Read by VfkaBT 12:43
14
The Londoner, by Simon Pure Read by BettyB 25:41
15
Lonely, by Jo Felshin (poem) Read by VfkaBT 1:00
16
A Literary Portrait Gallery, by Annie Nathan Meyer Read by BettyB 15:57
17
Thirty Thousand Poets From Japan, by Shigeyoshi Obata Read by Larry Wilson 8:05
18
Walt Whitman - Dramatic Critic, by Alexander Woolcott Read by VfkaBT 13:38
19
Old Love and New Poetry, Or Vice Versa, by Floyd Dell Read by Chris Pyle 6:58
20
The Baltimore Anti-Christ, by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by VfkaBT 8:01
21
What is The "American Language"?, by Ring W. Lardner Read by Devorah Allen 4:38
22
Woman Sees Steel, by Mary Austin Read by Elanor 7:46
23
Repentance, by Daniel Henderson (poem) Read by BettyB 1:07
24
Foreign Notes and Comment, by Allen Wilson Porterfield Read by BettyB 11:03
25
Allegiance, by Hildegarde Flanner Read by BettyB 1:05
26
The Gossip Shop, by Anonymous Read by BettyB 30:01
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