A Stay at The Algonquin Hotel

By Suzanne Kamata

My daughter’s first question upon checking into the Algonquin Hotel near Times Square in New York City is “Do they have Wi-Fi here?”

As for me, I glance around the dark wooded tables of the Round Table restaurant, eager to channel past visitors through less modern means. Perhaps the ghost of one-time resident legendary actor John Barrymore here, or the spirits of the rapier-witted writer Dorothy Parker, who worked a couple of streets over at the offices of Vogue and Vanity Fair, or Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber, who penned Showboat and Giant, among other successful ...