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Dorothy Parker (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Dorothy Parker’s principal writings, identified by Alexander Woolcott as “a potent distillation of nectar and wormwood,” are short stories and verse—not serious “poetry,” she claimed. Her poetic volumes include Enough Rope (1926), Sunset Gun (1928), and Death and Taxes (1931)—mostly lamentations for loves lost, never found, or gone awry. She wrote witty drama reviews for Vanity Fair (1918-1920), Ainslee’s (1920-1933), and The New Yorker (1931); and terse, tart book reviews for The New Yorker...

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