THE ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE

LAURENCE RAWBAŞKENT UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

THE “VICIOUS CIRCLE” AT THE ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE (CARICATURE BY AI HIRSCHFELD)

IMAGES FROM ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)

THE ALGONQUIN HOTEL INTERIOR

LOBBY AND THE OAK ROOM WHERE THE ROUND TABLE GATHERED

THE NEW YORKER (FIRST ISSUE 21 FEBRUARY 1925)

THE JAZZ AGE

GILBERT SELDES (AUTHOR OF THE SEVEN LIVELY ARTS) AND THE GREAT GATSBY.SELDES’ SURVEY OF THE CURRENT LITERARY SCENE APPEARED IN 1924; FITZGERALD’S CLASSIC A YEAR LATER

PROHIBITION AND THE SPEAKEASY

THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP

WELL-KNOWN MEMBERS OF THE ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE: ALECK WOOLLCOTT (TOP LEFT), ROBERT BENCHLEY (TOP RIGHT) AND DOROTHY PARKER

THE VICIOUS CIRCLE IN HOLLYWOOD

From top: Bette Davis and Monty Woolley in The Man who Came to Dinner (1943). The Woolley role parodies Woollcottç Robert Benchley in the How To … shorts (1935-9); Janet Gaynor and Fredric March in A Star is Born (screenplay co-authored by Dorothy Parker (1937))

THE ROUND TABLE’S LEGACY : LITERARY TOURISM

THE ROUND TABLE’S LEGACY 2 – THE NEW YORKER AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS