Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28 by Parker, Dorothy
Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28 by Parker, Dorothy

Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28

"Does anyone know how hard it is to be that funny? . . . Read her book...
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Author: Dorothy Parker
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Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28 by Parker, Dorothy

Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28

$37.39
Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28 by Parker, Dorothy

Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28

$37.39
Author: Dorothy Parker
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
"Does anyone know how hard it is to be that funny? . . . Read her book reviews. Read them now and see how good they are." --Fran Lebowitz

When Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, in 1927, she was already a legendary wit, a much-quoted member of the Algonquin Round Table, and an arbiter of literary taste. In the year that she spent as a weekly reviewer, under the rubric "Constant Reader," she created what is still the most entertaining book column ever written. Parker's hot takes have lost none of their heat, whether she's taking aim at the evangelist Aimee Semple MacPherson ("She can go on like that for hours. Can, hell--does"), praising Hemingway's latest collection ("He discards detail with magnificent lavishness"), or dissenting from the Tao of Pooh ("And it is that word 'hummy, ' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up").

Here, for the first time in one volume, is the complete set of weekly reviews that Parker published from October 1927 through November 1928, in all their variety, with gimlet-eyed appreciations of the high and low, from Isadora Duncan to Al Smith, Charles Lindbergh to Little Orphan Annie, Mussolini to Emily Post.

Author: Dorothy Parker
Publisher: McNally Editions
Published: 11/05/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781961341258

About the Author
Dorothy Parker née Rothschild (1898-1967), grew up on New York's Upper West Side. She became famous for her comic poems, her short stories, her reviews, and her repartée, as recorded by the columnist Wolcott Gibbs over lunches at the Algonquin hotel. A prolific magazine contributor in her youth and a successful screenwriter (she co-wrote the original A Star is Born), she struggled all her life with alcoholism and wrote very little in her later decades, though continued to be a vocal champion of progressive causes, especially civil rights.

Sloane Crosley is the author of the essay collections I Was Told There'd Be Cake (a 2009 finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor), How Did You Get This Number, and Look Alive Out There (a 2019 Thurber Prize finalist); the novels The Clasp and Cult Classic; and, most recently, her memoir, Grief Is for People. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair, she lives in New York City.
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