Her reviews are not contemptuous, a common pitfall for her imitators. They are simply unbridled in their dislike.

You can’t judge a book by its cover, but sometimes you can judge a writer’s standing by it. My 1990s-era paperback edition of “The Portable Dorothy Parker” shows the poet, critic, playwright and ...

Native New Yorker, Dorothy Parker, did not like movies. She did not like Hollywood. And she really did not like the people ...

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If Dorothy Parker was going to live anywhere upon her return to Hollywood, of course it was going to be the Garden of Allah. Partly because that’s where everybody went to live who was in transit ...

Dorothy Parker, the sharp-tongued wit of the Jazz Age, remains one of America’s most fascinating literary figures. In WIT & ...

Dorothy Parker was one of the great transients of American literary history, yet she remains more permanent than most writers ...

“Playing Possum,” a new book by the philosopher Susana Monsó ... became a crucial polemical voice of the 20th century. Dorothy Parker worked on the script for “A Star Is Born,” but ...

Although best known for her Manhattan literary circle, Parker also found fame and fortune as a Hollywood writer. Bettmann Archive As Gail Crowther puts it in her revealing new book “Dorothy ...

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Dorothy Parker was one of the great transients of ... for evaluation in our own screen-obsessed age. Ms. Crowther is the ...