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- Original recording of John Steinbeck reading his short story “Johnny Bear”One thing that I really like to do on this site is hunt down original recordings of Lost Generation authors reading their own work. It wasn’t until I started this blog that I realized I had never heard any of these authors in their own voice. And so today here’s a great recording of JohnContinue reading “Original recording of John Steinbeck reading his short story “Johnny Bear””
- Ray Bradbury tries to save Ernest HemingwayWell, with Christmas now behind us, it’s time to return to our regular posts about the Lost Generation. While listening to a Ray Bradbury short story collection I came across a very interesting one involving Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. My physical issues often make it very uncomfortable to hold a book for longContinue reading “Ray Bradbury tries to save Ernest Hemingway”
- Christmas in the 1920s: The MusicWith Christmas almost here I realized I never highlighted that most important part of any ambience – the music! And music is something the 1920s was certainly not devoid of. It wasn’t called the Jazz Age for nothing! So today, let’s listen to some classic Christmas music from that time period. Gather the kids aroundContinue reading “Christmas in the 1920s: The Music”
- 1920s Inspired Women’s Holiday Party Shopping GuideHello everyone, this is my first time posting to this site so I thought I would take a second to introduce myself. My name is Cori and I’m Gregory’s fiancée. He has kindly invited me to start doing a couple post every now and then on here about the aspect of the 1920s that isContinue reading “1920s Inspired Women’s Holiday Party Shopping Guide”
- Christmas in the 1920s: Birth of the National Christmas TreeBack in the early 2000s when I was going to school at American University in Washington D.C., I had the pleasure of getting to go to see the lighting of the National Christmas tree. I always loved Christmas, but up until that point I didn’t actually know that there was a National Christmas tree. AndContinue reading “Christmas in the 1920s: Birth of the National Christmas Tree”
- Christmas in the 1920s: MagazinesIn a recent post I wrote about a Christmas story by Dorothy Parker titled The Christmas Magazines And the Inevitable Story of the Snowbound Train. An early piece of writing by Parker, it was published by Vanity Fair in December 1916. In it she essentially laments and belittles the sentimentality of the Christmas magazines ofContinue reading “Christmas in the 1920s: Magazines”
