Dec 27, 2009
In addition to Dorothy Parker’s verse—not serious “poetry,” she claimed—her principal writings, identified by Alexander Woollcott as “a potent distillation of nectar and wormwood,” are several collections of well-crafted short stories: Laments for the Living (1930), After Such Pleasures (1933), and Here Lies: The Collected Stories (1939). These stories focus on the superficial, pointless, barren lives of middle- and upper-class Manhattanite women of the flapper and early Depression times, unhappily dependent on men...
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