The Portable Dorothy Parker
The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors.\ For this new twenty-first-century edition, devoted admirers can be sure to find their favorite verse and stories. But a variety of fresh material has also been added to create a fuller, more authentic picture of her life's work. There are some stories new to the Portable, "Such a Pretty Little Picture," along with a...
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The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors.Library JournalThe great Parker gets the red-carpet treatment as her "Portable" is bumped up to a "Deluxe Edition" (go, Dottie!). The text includes her short fiction, poems, book and theater reviews, letters, and more. A wonderful extra is the quickie biography in simple drawings adorning the front and rear inside cover flaps. Though probably better known today for her one-liners, Parker should be taken seriously as one of the great writers, female or otherwise. This beautifully executed edition does her justice. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
The Portable Dorothy Parker Introduction Suggestions for Further Reading\ Part One: The Original Portable as Arranged by Dorothy Parker in1944\ The Lovely Leave Arrangement in Black and White The Sexes The Standard of Living Mr. Durant The Waltz The 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 The Last Tea Big Blonde\ Sunset Gun (Poems)\ Just A Little One Lady with a Lamp The Little Hours Horsie Glory in the Daytime New York to Detroit\ Death and Taxes (Poems)\ The 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\ The Game, Cosmopolitan, December 1948\ The Banquet of Crow, The New Yorker, December 14, 1957\ The Bolt Behind the Blue, Esquire, December 1958\ Interior Desecration, Vogue, April 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 Gardener From The New York Times Book Review, 1957\ The Road to Miltown, Or Under the Spreading Atrophy by S. J. Perelman From Esqure, 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 Years 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\ The 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\ The 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 Woolcott, 1935\ To Harold Guinzburg, 1935\ To Helen Rothschild Grimwood, c. 1939\ To Malcolm Cowley, 1958\ To Morton Zabel, 1958\ To John Patrick, 1962\ Index
\ Library JournalThe great Parker gets the red-carpet treatment as her "Portable" is bumped up to a "Deluxe Edition" (go, Dottie!). The text includes her short fiction, poems, book and theater reviews, letters, and more. A wonderful extra is the quickie biography in simple drawings adorning the front and rear inside cover flaps. Though probably better known today for her one-liners, Parker should be taken seriously as one of the great writers, female or otherwise. This beautifully executed edition does her justice. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.\ \
