Dorothy Parker's complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing. When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, 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…mehr
Dorothy Parker's complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing.
When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, 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").
Introduced with characteristic wit and sympathy by Sloane Crosley, Constant Reader gathers the complete weekly New Yorker reviews that Parker published from October 1927 through November 1928, 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
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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Foreword by Sloane Crosley Oct 1 1927: The Highly Recurrent Mr. Hamilton-Al Smith and How He Grew-Bad News of May Sinclair Oct 8 1927: Mrs. Colby's Second Novel-The Private Papers of the Dead-The Philosopher Takes a Long Look at Himself Oct 15 1927: An American Du Barry-A Biography of Henry Ward Beecher Oct 22 1927: Re-enter Margot Asquith-Something Young-A Masterpiece from the French Oct 29 1927: A Book of Great Short Stories-Something About Cabell Nov 5 1927: The Professor Goes in for Sweetness and Light-Short Stories from One Who Knows How to Do Them-Sketches Mostly Unpleasant-A Biography of a Much-Talked-About Lady Nov 12 1927: Mr. Morley Capers on a Toadstool-Mr. Milne Grows to Be Six Nov 19 1927: Adam and Eve and Lilith and Epigrams-Something More About Cabell Nov 26. 1927: Madame Glyn Lectures on It with Illustrations Dec 3 1927: The Most Popular Reading Matter Dec 10 1927: The Socialist Looks at Literature-A Lyricist Looks at His Neighbors Dec 17 1927: The Short Story Through a Couple of the Ages Dec 31 1927: Mrs. Post Enlarges on Etiquette Jan 7 1928: More Troubles for Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh Jan 14 1928: Poor Immortal Isadora Jan 28 1928: Re-enter Miss Hurst Followed by Mr. Tarkington Feb 4 1928: A Good Novel and a Great Story Feb 11 1928: Literary Rotarians Feb 18 1928: Excuse It Please-Americans at Play-This Sentimental Grand Vizier Feb 25 1928: Our Lady of the Loudspeaker Mar 10 1928: Unfinished Endeavors Mar 17 1928: The Compleat Bungler Mar 24 1928: Ethereal Mildness Mar 31 1928: A Very Dull Article Indeed Apr 7 1928: Mr. Lewis Lays It On with a Trowel Apr 14 1928: Mrs. Norris and the Beast Apr 21 1928: These Much Too Charming People May 19 1928: Hard-Boiled Virgins Are Faithful Lovers May 26 1928: Mr. See Sees It Through Aug 25 1928: Back to the Book-Shelf Sep 15 1928: Duces Wild Sep 29 1928: How It Feels to Be One Hundred and Forty-Six Oct 20 1928: Far from Well Nov 17 1928: Wallflower's Lament
Foreword by Sloane Crosley Oct 1 1927: The Highly Recurrent Mr. Hamilton-Al Smith and How He Grew-Bad News of May Sinclair Oct 8 1927: Mrs. Colby's Second Novel-The Private Papers of the Dead-The Philosopher Takes a Long Look at Himself Oct 15 1927: An American Du Barry-A Biography of Henry Ward Beecher Oct 22 1927: Re-enter Margot Asquith-Something Young-A Masterpiece from the French Oct 29 1927: A Book of Great Short Stories-Something About Cabell Nov 5 1927: The Professor Goes in for Sweetness and Light-Short Stories from One Who Knows How to Do Them-Sketches Mostly Unpleasant-A Biography of a Much-Talked-About Lady Nov 12 1927: Mr. Morley Capers on a Toadstool-Mr. Milne Grows to Be Six Nov 19 1927: Adam and Eve and Lilith and Epigrams-Something More About Cabell Nov 26. 1927: Madame Glyn Lectures on It with Illustrations Dec 3 1927: The Most Popular Reading Matter Dec 10 1927: The Socialist Looks at Literature-A Lyricist Looks at His Neighbors Dec 17 1927: The Short Story Through a Couple of the Ages Dec 31 1927: Mrs. Post Enlarges on Etiquette Jan 7 1928: More Troubles for Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh Jan 14 1928: Poor Immortal Isadora Jan 28 1928: Re-enter Miss Hurst Followed by Mr. Tarkington Feb 4 1928: A Good Novel and a Great Story Feb 11 1928: Literary Rotarians Feb 18 1928: Excuse It Please-Americans at Play-This Sentimental Grand Vizier Feb 25 1928: Our Lady of the Loudspeaker Mar 10 1928: Unfinished Endeavors Mar 17 1928: The Compleat Bungler Mar 24 1928: Ethereal Mildness Mar 31 1928: A Very Dull Article Indeed Apr 7 1928: Mr. Lewis Lays It On with a Trowel Apr 14 1928: Mrs. Norris and the Beast Apr 21 1928: These Much Too Charming People May 19 1928: Hard-Boiled Virgins Are Faithful Lovers May 26 1928: Mr. See Sees It Through Aug 25 1928: Back to the Book-Shelf Sep 15 1928: Duces Wild Sep 29 1928: How It Feels to Be One Hundred and Forty-Six Oct 20 1928: Far from Well Nov 17 1928: Wallflower's Lament
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