A talk on the historical significance of the Algonquin Hotel and its famous Round Table that flourished between >World war I and World War II. It was the favorite haunt of many great American creative talents, and significantly helped bring about the existence of the NEW YORKER.

1. THE ALGONQUIN ROUND
TABLE
LAURENCE RAW
BAŞKENT UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

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

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

4. THE
ALGONQUIN
HOTEL
INTERIOR
LOBBY AND
THE OAK
ROOM WHERE
THE ROUND
TABLE
GATHERED

5. THE NEW YORKER (FIRST ISSUE 21
FEBRUARY 1925)

6. THE JAZZ AGE

7. 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

8. PROHIBITION AND THE
SPEAKEASY

9. THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP

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

11. 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

12. THE ROUND
TABLE’S
LEGACY :
LITERARY
TOURISM

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