Contributed by Feet Banks, a moderator at this year’s writers festival, and Jess Smith.

In the 1920s, the Blue Bar in Midtown Manhattan’s historic Algonquin Hotel was the watering hole for the literary elite. A group of local well-known writers, actors, journalists and artists that named themselves the ‘Algonquin Round Table’ met almost daily to brainstorm, argue and imbibe until brilliance ensued. So, as ode to all the illustrious and industrious writers coming to town for the Whistler Readers & Writers Festival, The Insider presents: A Literary Guide to Whistler Hotel Bars