Best of Jazz Age pieces in Vanity Fair book

Before Buzzfeed, before Spy, before Rolling Stone and the Paris Review, there was Vanity Fair.

The smart-set magazine launched a century ago became famous as a sort of barometer of the Jazz Age and for its murderers' row of heavy-hitting contributors. Dorothy Parker, Carl Sandburg, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein were just a few who wrote for the magazine.

Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers & Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair collects some of the more interesting and unusual pieces from Vanity Fair's dawn through 1936 (the magazine was resurrected in 1983).