Dorothy Parker — a remark

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“I know of no character in the literature of the last quarter-century who is such a complete pain in the neck.”

Applying literary criticism with gleeful directness to Emily Post's idealised social figure · Book review of Emily Post's Etiquette, The New Yorker, 1927

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Dorothy Parker

22 August 1893–7 June 1967

Dorothy Parker, born Dorothy Rothschild on 22 August 1893 and dead on 7 June 1967, became one of the most recognizable voices of twentieth-century American letters: a poet of compressed heartbreak, a theater and book critic of dangerous precision, a short-story writer of unusual psychological acuity, a screenwriter…

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