The Bookman, March 1921: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Bookman, March 1921, credited to John Farrar, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Bookman, March 1921 by John Farrar. Read in English by Elanor; Larry Wilson; Lazlo; VfkaBT; Devorah Allen; BettyB; Chris Pyle 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Bookman, March 1921
• Author credits: John Farrar
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 6:02:40

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• Americana
• criticism

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - The Elder Critic and The Young Enthusiast, by Heywood Broun — 12:29
2. 02 - Hiker At Midnight, by Carl Sandburg (poem) — 1:11
3. 03 - The World's Most Curious Books, by Walter H. Blumenthal — 13:21
4. 04 - The Curious Case of Kenelm Digby, by Christopher Morley — 39:29
5. 05 - Child and Wind, by Lola Ridge (poem) — 1:11
6. 06 - Murray Hill Sees Mr. Chesterton, by Murray Hill — 18:57
7. 07 - Apotheosis, by Keith Preston (poem) — 0:47
8. 08 - Dreiser - After Twenty Years, by Edward H. Smith — 51:25
9. 09 - The Poems of the Month, by Louis Untermeyer — 8:13
10. 10 - America and the Young Intellectual, by Harold Stearns — 29:54
11. 11 - A Talk With Charles Dickens's Office Boy, by Catherine Van Dyke — 14:05
12. 12 - Maxwell Struthers Burt, by Blanche Colton Williams — 23:46
13. 13 - The Alleged Culture of New England, by Richard Burton — 12:42
14. 14 - The Londoner, by Simon Pure — 25:41
15. 15 - Lonely, by Jo Felshin (poem) — 1:00
16. 16 - A Literary Portrait Gallery, by Annie Nathan Meyer — 15:57
17. 17 - Thirty Thousand Poets From Japan, by Shigeyoshi Obata — 8:05
18. 18 - Walt Whitman - Dramatic Critic, by Alexander Woolcott — 13:38
19. 19 - Old Love and New Poetry, Or Vice Versa, by Floyd Dell — 6:58
20. 20 - The Baltimore Anti-Christ, by F. Scott Fitzgerald — 8:01
21. 21 - What is The ''American Language''? — 4:38
22. 22 - Woman Sees Steel, by Mary Austin — 7:46
23. 23 - Repentance, by Daniel Henderson (poem) — 1:07
24. 24 - Foreign Notes and Comment, by Allen Wilson Porterfield — 11:03

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