mjt on Nostr: Coming out on 5 November: a collection of Dorothy Parker’s delightful and wicked ...
Coming out on 5 November: a collection of Dorothy Parker’s delightful and wicked “Constant Reader” columns for the New Yorker, with a sharp and clever forward by Sloane Crosley.
I came close to an aneurysm too many times from laughing out loud (not mere LOLing) when I read an earlier collection of some of these and the theatre reviews that got her fired from Vanity Fair.
Dorothy Parker and the Art of the Literary Takedown https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/dorothy-parker-and-the-art-of-the-literary-takedown?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_Free_110124&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_daily_digest&bxid=5e9798fe7e553f7d9b7358e1&cndid=60690253&hasha=0a1078535b7ce72315ae0f69b872ef5f&hashb=990765f4284b69d51ceefa8fb5b0d4c707f3dd2c&hashc=dfbfb2f8f59f53d7b48511234bd0a3aeebc5767810f40249ebcd4bdc326719d8&esrc=MARTECH_ORDERFORM&mbid=CRMNYR012019
I came close to an aneurysm too many times from laughing out loud (not mere LOLing) when I read an earlier collection of some of these and the theatre reviews that got her fired from Vanity Fair.
Dorothy Parker and the Art of the Literary Takedown https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/dorothy-parker-and-the-art-of-the-literary-takedown?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_Free_110124&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_daily_digest&bxid=5e9798fe7e553f7d9b7358e1&cndid=60690253&hasha=0a1078535b7ce72315ae0f69b872ef5f&hashb=990765f4284b69d51ceefa8fb5b0d4c707f3dd2c&hashc=dfbfb2f8f59f53d7b48511234bd0a3aeebc5767810f40249ebcd4bdc326719d8&esrc=MARTECH_ORDERFORM&mbid=CRMNYR012019