Herbert Gorman: “do we think in summer?”

One hundred years ago today … Herbert Gorman used his platform, a column in the Times book review section, to ask a question only a member of the intellectual elite would ask.

New York Times Book Review and Magazine, 15 August 1920, p. 3. The New York Times. — *New York Times Book Review and Magazine*, 15 August 1920, p. 3. *The New York Times.*

New York Times Book Review and Magazine, 15 August 1920, p. 17. The New York Times. — *New York Times Book Review and Magazine*, 15 August 1920, p. 17. *The New York Times.*

Gorman was 27 at the time, and making a name for himself as a reviewer. In the coming years he would establish himself as an important critic and biographer of modernist literature, notably writing the first biography of James Joyce.

Gorman’s is one of the 242 signatures carved into the door of Frank Shay’s bookshop, 4 Christopher Street, between 1920–1925.

Courtesy the Harry Ransome Center, University of Texas at Austin.

POSTED BY JONATHAN GOLDMAN, AUGUST 15, 2020.

TAGS: reviews, modernism, literature, leisure