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When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, 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 rubric "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 The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up").
Introduced with characteristic wit and sympathy by Sloane Crosley, Constant Reader gathers the complete weekly New Yorker 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
Contents
Foreword by Sloane Crosley
Oct 1, 1927: The Highly Recurrent Mr. Hamilton—Al Smith, and How He Grew—Bad News of May Sinclair
Oct 8, 1927: Mrs. Colby's Second Novel—The Private Papers of the Dead—The Philosopher Takes a Long Look at Himself
Oct 15, 1927: An American Du Barry—A Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
Oct 22, 1927: Re-enter Margot Asquith—Something Young—A Masterpiece from the French
Oct 29, 1927: A Book of Great Short Stories—Something About Cabell
Nov 5, 1927: The Professor Goes in for Sweetness and Light—Short Stories from One Who Knows How to Do Them—Sketches, Mostly Unpleasant—A Biography of a Much-Talked-About Lady
Nov 12, 1927: Mr. Morley Capers on a Toadstool—Mr. Milne Grows to Be Six
Nov 19, 1927: Adam and Eve and Lilith and Epigrams—Something More About Cabell
Nov 26. 1927: Madame Glyn Lectures on It, with Illustrations
Dec 3, 1927: The Most Popular Reading Matter
Dec 10, 1927: The Socialist Looks at Literature—A Lyricist Looks at His Neighbors
Dec 17, 1927: The Short Story, Through a Couple of the Ages
Dec 31, 1927: Mrs. Post Enlarges on Etiquette
Jan 7, 1928: More Troubles for Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
Jan 14, 1928: Poor, Immortal Isadora
Jan 28, 1928: Re-enter Miss Hurst, Followed by Mr. Tarkington
Feb 4, 1928: A Good Novel, and a Great Story
Feb 11, 1928: Literary Rotarians
Feb 18, 1928: Excuse It, Please—Americans at Play—This Sentimental Grand Vizier
Feb 25, 1928: Our Lady of the Loudspeaker
Mar 10, 1928: Unfinished Endeavors
Mar 17, 1928: The Compleat Bungler
Mar 24, 1928: Ethereal Mildness
Mar 31, 1928: A Very Dull Article, Indeed
Apr 7, 1928: Mr. Lewis Lays It On with a Trowel
Apr 14, 1928: Mrs. Norris and the Beast
Apr 21, 1928: These Much Too Charming People
May 19, 1928: Hard-Boiled Virgins Are Faithful Lovers
May 26, 1928: Mr. See Sees It Through
Aug 25, 1928: Back to the Book-Shelf
Sep 15, 1928: Duces Wild
Sep 29, 1928: How It Feels to Be One Hundred and Forty-Six
Oct 20, 1928: Far from Well
Nov 17, 1928: Wallflower's Lament
