Another Round at the Algonquin - Book Launch for The Algonquin Round Table
May 09, 2024 @ 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Join us at the historic Algonquin Hotel (59 W 44th St.) for the launch of The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who Lunch, by acclaimed author, journalist, and Algonquinite Konrad Bercovici. Enjoy a night of readings, refreshments, and bon mots with the ghosts of Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott, and their famously caustic crowd.
The Algonquin Round Table is a story unto itself. The late author’s granddaughter, Mirana Comstock, discovered the unpublished manuscript in his papers. A writer herself, she subsequently wrote the foreword and served as editor of her grandfather’s work.
“Reading The Algonquin Round Table is such an intimate insider’s view, I feel as if I am lunching there with him,” she says. Indeed, Konrad Bercovici (1881–1961) was a Round Table regular and a brilliant, prolific author and journalist in his own right. The scribe of 40 books and hundreds of articles and short stories, screenplays and teleplays, he was heralded as “America’s master of the short story” and compared to Chekhov and Maupassant.
Konrad Bercovici’s newly discovered manuscript is more than a boon for scholars. It is also a fascinating look at this era for the casual reader.