{"product_id":"constant-reader-the-new-yorker-columns-1927-28-paperback","title":"Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDorothy Parker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSloane Crosley\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDorothy Parker's complete weekly \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, she was already a legendary wit, a much-quoted member of the Algonquin Round Table, and an arbiter of literary taste. In the year that she spent as a weekly reviewer, under the rupic \"Constant Reader,\" she created what is still the most entertaining book column ever written. Parker's hot takes have lost none of their heat, whether she's taking aim at the evangelist Aimee Semple MacPherson (\"She can go on like that for hours. Can, hell--does\"), praising Hemingway's latest collection (\"He discards detail with magnificent lavishness\"), or dissenting from the Tao of Pooh (\"And it is that word 'hummy, ' my darlings, that marks the first place in \u003ci\u003eThe House at Pooh Corner\u003c\/i\u003e at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up\").\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduced with characteristic wit and sympathy by Sloane Crosley, \u003ci\u003eConstant Reader\u003c\/i\u003e gathers the complete weekly \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e reviews that Parker published from October 1927 through November 1928, with gimlet-eyed appreciations of the high and low, from Isadora Duncan to Al Smith, Charles Lindbergh to Little Orphan Annie, Mussolini to Emily Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDorothy Parker\u003c\/b\u003e née Rothschild (1898-1967), grew up on New York's Upper West Side. She became famous for her comic poems, her short stories, her reviews, and her repartée, as recorded by the columnist Wolcott Gibbs over lunches at the Algonquin hotel. A prolific magazine contributor in her youth and a successful screenwriter (she co-wrote the original \u003ci\u003eA Star is Born\u003c\/i\u003e), she struggled all her life with alcoholism and wrote very little in her later decades, though continued to be a vocal champion of progressive causes, especially civil rights. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSloane Crosley\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the essay collections\u003ci\u003e I Was Told There'd Be Cake \u003c\/i\u003e(a 2009 finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor), \u003ci\u003eHow Did You Get This Number\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLook Alive Out There\u003c\/i\u003e (a 2019 Thurber Prize finalist); the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Clasp \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCult Classic\u003c\/i\u003e; and, most recently, her memoir, \u003ci\u003eGrief Is for People\u003c\/i\u003e. A contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, she lives in New York City.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.35 x 4.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376099475634,"sku":"9781961341258","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/8bdc3fed07c4bfba065a27ed3afb4e05.webp?v=1777696422","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/constant-reader-the-new-yorker-columns-1927-28-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}