The Bookman, March 1921

by John FARRAR (1896 - 1974)

The Elder Critic and The Young Enthusiast, by Heywood Broun

The Bookman, March 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)


Listen next episodes of The Bookman, March 1921:
A Literary Portrait Gallery, by Annie Nathan Meyer , A Talk With Charles Dickens's Office Boy, by Catherine Van Dyke , Allegiance, by Hildegarde Flanner , America and the Young Intellectual, by Harold Stearns , Apotheosis, by Keith Preston (poem) , Child and Wind, by Lola Ridge (poem) , Dreiser - After Twenty Years, by Edward H. Smith , Foreign Notes and Comment, by Allen Wilson Porterfield , Hiker At Midnight, by Carl Sandburg (poem) , Lonely, by Jo Felshin (poem) , Maxwell Struthers Burt, by Blanche Colton Williams , Murray Hill Sees Mr. Chesterton, by Murray Hill , Old Love and New Poetry, Or Vice Versa, by Floyd Dell , Repentance, by Daniel Henderson (poem) , The Alleged Culture of New England, by Richard Burton , The Baltimore Anti-Christ, by F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Curious Case of Kenelm Digby, by Christopher Morley , The Gossip Shop, by Anonymous , The Londoner, by Simon Pure , The Poems of the Month, by Louis Untermeyer , The World's Most Curious Books, by Walter H. Blumenthal , Thirty Thousand Poets From Japan, by Shigeyoshi Obata , Walt Whitman - Dramatic Critic, by Alexander Woolcott , What is The "American Language"?, by Ring W. Lardner , Woman Sees Steel, by Mary Austin