While E.B. White was mourning the demise of the smoky nightclub, art and design criticLewis Mumfordcontinued his tirade against the pretentious and mediocre buildings that were popping up all over the city, including the new Federal Court Building on Centre Street that was, in Mumford’s words...
F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgeraldwere Jazz Age fixtures, cutting wide swaths through literary and society worlds filled with wild drinking and various infidelities. Francis Scott (1896-1940) was a chronicler of that age, most notably withThe Great Gatsby,but Zelda (1900-1948) also took pen in han...