“Such Friends”: The Literary 1920s, Vol. V–1924

1924 Halfway through the decade, some Brits are lost on Everest, Americans are still flooding into Paris, and the Marx Brothers make their debut. And just when you think everything will be okay, Adolph Hitler is let out of prison. Read straight through or dip in and out of the latest in the series “Such Friends”: The Literary 1920s, Volume V–1924, in which Kathleen Dixon Donnelly chronicles the cultural and literary world of 100 years ago. focusing on writers and artists in four salons: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Literary Renaissance, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, Gertrude Stein and the Americans in Paris, Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin Round Table, and their “such friends” in Dublin, London, Paris and New York.