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The Portable Dorothy Parker
Edited by Marion Meade
Penguin Classics, 626 pages, $17
Dorothy Parker is famous for her quips (“Brevity is the soul of lingerie”; on the death of President Calvin Coolidge: “How do they know?” ), but this collection of letters, short stories, essays and book reviews compels readers to realize the sheer velocity of her genius. Parker’s work appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to McCall’s, and this handsome volume will satisfy long-time admirers as well as those who have never heard of the Algonquin Round Table.
