![]() ![]() Parker’s short stories and poems are amongst the most poignant I have ever read.Ī stack of Mrs. Largely autobiographical, or inspired by the events of friends and enemies alike, Mrs. Parker’s versus and prose (as I would later learn), there was also a sincere honesty, and at times, even vulnerability that was as entertaining as it was occasionally gut wrenching. In fact, it is more for these cutting remarks and quotations that she is remembered than for her written works. Parker perfected the art of verbal evisceration with a legendary stream of singled lined comments and quips. ![]() However, with her dead pan delivery and tiny stature, Mrs. Such wit, sarcasm, cynicism were, as I learned, the winning trifecta sought by every member of the Round Table, a group of young writers who famously used to met daily for lunch in the Algonquin Hotel Dining Room. A friend of mine was reading the Portable Dorothy Parker for a book club and said she thought I might enjoy it. Parker since the very first time I was introduced to her work. ![]()
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