These 'Blondes' are turning 100, and they're still a lot of fun

Maureen Corrigan

August 11, 2025 / 10:42 am

The year 1925 was a very good one for American literature — in fact, probably the best ever. The Great Gatsby was published that year, and so was Hemingway's short story collection, In Our Time , Willa Cather's The Professor's House , Alain Locke's landmark Harlem Renaissance anthology, The New Negro, and Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith , which won the Pulitzer Prize. There's also Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy , Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans and, I'll stop there, except to say that The New Yorker magazine was also founded in 1925.

Amidst all these heavyweights, it's easy to overlook a cheeky little comic novel; but, in 1925, Anita Loos was t

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