Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition The Portable Dorothy Parker, (Paperback)

from Kayla-Marie

Most of the books she reviewed in this collection I've never heard of, so I didn't do much more than skim a couple. And I thought her short stories were nothing special and I ended up forgetting most of them a couple days after I'd read them. However, her poems are some of the best I've ever read...

from kaulsu

How many times have I seen bon mots attributed to Dorothy Parker? I thought I'd enjoy reading more of what she had written. Evidently, she was quite the wit in her day. Turns out anything she wrote that was witty, I had already read! I enjoyed a few of her short stories, especially the ones that ...

from bookworm12

The Portable Dorothy Parker is a 600 page tome filled with her short stories, poetry, articles, letters and more. If she wrote it, it's probably in there. She had a sharp tongue, but also a brilliant talent for writing. Her short stories were usually tinged with tragedy, giving a weight to her wo...

from ChewDigest

The Audio version of "The Telephone Call" just had me in tears. It was the last story and after hours of snappish and witty fun, BAM, there is this story that I can so relate to told in a voice that sounds so much like mine, lost, in pain, desperate. My God, the best short ever written...at least...

from Kasthu

Dorothy Parker was famous for her satirical wit, a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, and one of the earliest writers for the New Yorker. She was once arrested for protesting the execution of the murderers Sacco and Vanzetti. Later, she pursued screenwriting in Hollywood and was later ...