Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker has the devastating task of describing the greatest—and most gossiped-about—writer of the day, in this Profile from 1929.

Fiction, from 1929: “The pale young man eased himself carefully into the low chair, and rolled his head to the side, so that the cool chintz comforted his cheek and temple.”

Dorothy Parker’s review of A. A. Milne’s children’s classic.

Dorothy Parker imagines a comic, catty, boozy date in a speakeasy, in this humor story from 1928.

Dorothy Parker reviews the author and socialite Emily Post’s notorious guide to manners, “Etiquette.”

A classic short story by Dorothy Parker, in which a partygoer’s introduction to the guest of honor becomes a nervous attempt to deal with racism.

We’d break the city’s unfeeling clutch And back to good Mother Earth we’d go, With Birds and blossoms and such-and-such, And love and kisses and so-and-so.