The portable Dorothy Parker
by Dorothy Parker, Brendan Gill · first published 1973
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Collection of Parker's stories, poems, essays. It's a small size, but wow, is it full of her great writing! Someone stole my copy, and I'm missing her humor and instinct for saying it like it is, or was, during her days with the Algonquin Round Table. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. One of the most quotable of twentieth-century authors, Dorothy Parker has attained a wide-ranging and enthusiastic following. This revised and enlarged edition, with an introduction by Brendan Gill, comprises the original 1944 Portable, as selected and arranged by Dorothy Parker herself and including all her most celebrated p
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on “The heartbreak behind Dorothy Parker's wit” ↗…Computer Science course from Prof. Henderson (as he was known to me), I discovered two passions in my life - programming, and the very cool women on campus who all seemed to be carrying the book "The Portable Dorothy Parker" with them everywhere.
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