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The portable Dorothy Parker
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Rev. and enl. ed. / with a new introd. b.
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9780143039532
9780670540167
9780670540167
Table of Contents
From the Book - 2nd rev. ed.
Introduction --
Suggestions for Further Reading. Part One: The Original Portable as Arranged by Dorothy Parker in 1944: The Lovely Leave --
Arrangement in Black and White --
Sexes --
Standard of Living --
Mr. Durant --
Waltz --
Wonderful Old Gentleman --
Song of the Shirt, 1941 --
Enough Rope (Poems) --
A Telephone Call --
Here We Are --
Dusk before Fireworks --
You were Perfectly Fine --
Mrs. Hofstadter on Josephine Street --
Soldiers of the Republic --
Too Bad --
Last Tea --
Big Blonde --
Sunset Gun (Poems) --
Just a Little One --
Lady with a Lamp --
Little Hours --
Horsie --
Glory in the Daytime --
New York to Detroit --
Death and Taxes (Poems) --
Custard Heart --
From the Diary of a New York Lady --
Cousin Larry --
Little Curtis --
Sentiment --
Clothe the Naked --
War Song (Poem).
Part Two: Other Writings: Such a Pretty Little Picture, Smart Set, December 1922 --
Advice to the Little Peyton Girl, Harper's Bazaar, February 1933 --
Game, Cosmopolitan, December 1948 --
Banquet of Crow, The New Yorker, December 14, 1957 --
Bolt Behind the Blue, Esquire, December 1958 --
Interior Desecration, Vogue, April 15, 1917 --
Here Comes the Groom, Vogue, June 15, 1917 --
Week's End, (New York) Life, July 21, 1927 --
My Home town, McCall's, January 1928 --
Not Enough, New Masses, March 14, 1939 --
Destructive Decoration, House and Garden, November 1942 --
From Vanity Fair, 1918-1919: Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, Redemption by Leo Tolstoi, Dear Brutus by J.M. Barrie --
From Ainslee's (In Broadway Playhouses), 1921: The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill, Ziegfeld Follies of 1921 --
From The New Yorker (Substituting for Robert Benchley), 1931, The Barretts of Wimpole Street by Rudolf Besier, Give Me Yesterday by A.A. Milne, The Admirable Crichton by J.M. Barrie --
From The New Yorker (Constant Reader), 1927-1931: The President's Daughter by Nan Britton, Men without Women by Ernest Hemingway, Happiness by William Lyon Phelps, A President is Born by Fannie Hurst; Claire Ambler by Booth Tarkington --
Literary Rotarians: Appendicitis by Thew Wright, M.D.; Art of the Night by George Jean Nathan, The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne, Round Up by Ring Lardner --
Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts, compiled by Charles Noel Douglas, The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett, Dawn by Theodore Dreiser, The Grandmother of the Aunt of the Gardner --
From The New York Times Book Review, 1957: The Road to Miltown, Or Under the Spreading Atrophy by S.J. Perelman --
From Esquire, 1958-1959: The American Earthquake by Edmund Wilson; The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac; Ice Palace by Edna Ferber, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote; The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike, The Yeas with Ross by James Thurber.
Part Three: A Dorothy Parker Sampler: Any Porch, Vanity Fair, September 15, 1915 --
Sorry, the Line is Busy, Life, April 21, 1921 --
In the Throes, (New York) Life, September 16, 1924 --
For R.C.B., The New Yorker, January 7, 1928 --
Untitled Birthday Lament, c. 1927 --
Garter, The New Yorker, September 8, 1928 --
Sophisticated Poetry and the Hell With It, New Masses, June 27, 1939 --
Introduction: The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments, by James Thurber, 1932 --
Function of the Writer, Address, Esquire Magazine Symposium, October 1958 [extract] --
New York at 6:30 P.M., Esquire, November 1964 --
Self-Portrait from The Paris Review, "Writers at Work," 1956 --
Letters 1905-1962: To Henry Rothschild, 1905 --
To Henry Rothschild, 1905 --
To Harold Ross, 1927 --
To Harold Ross, no date --
To Seward Collins, 1927 --
To Helen Rothschild Droste, 1929 --
To Robert Charles Benchley, 1929 --
To Sara and Gerald Murphy, 1934 --
To F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934 --
To Alexander Woollcott, 1935 --
To Harold Guinzburg, 1935 --
To Helen Rothschild Grimwood, c. 1939 --
To Malcolm Cowley, 1958 --
To Morton Zabel, 1958 --
To John Patrick, 1962.
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