Wild Card/Tuesday — 12.13.11

I received an unexpected surprise when I went trolling through the Portland, Ore., public library system, using my future son-in-law’s library card last week. I spotted, “Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the ‘20s.” I’m a sucker for the 1920 New York writer scene — H.L. Mencken, Walter Winchell, Dorothy Parker. Parker’s name caught my eye in the brief library description of the book, which focuses year by year through the 1920s on her and 3 other women: Zelda Fitzgerald (F. Scott’s wife), Edna Ferber, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. I. Can’t. Put. My. Kindle. Down. Are you a fan of a bygone American decade? You can answer that question or use this Wild Card to discuss anything you want …