From 1919 to 1929 in New York City’s Algonquin Hotel, a group of critics, humorists, playwrights, novelists, poets, and editors met for lunch to exchange opinions, gossip, and the most cutting wit of the day. Aviva Slesin’s award-winning docume ntary recounts the lives and times of these men and women whose barbed humor and literary sophistication embodied the best American culture in the 1920’s.