Overview
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 rupic ""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.
Full Product Details
Author: Dorothy Parker ,
Sloane Crosley ,
Dina Pearlman
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9798228549371
Publication Date: 22 April 2025
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Dorothy Parker nee 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 repartee, 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 cowrote 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 novels Cult Classic and The Clasp and three essay collections: Look Alive Out There and the New York Times bestsellers I Was Told There'd Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number. Dina Pearlman is an actress and audiobook narrator who has lent her voice to Mike Shepherd's Kris Longknife series, Jeanne C. Stein's Vampire for Hire series, and C.J. Cherryh's Chanur series. She has appeared in a number of television series and movies and has performed at the renowned Moth storytelling theater. She currently resides in New York City.
