Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

by Marion Meade

There’s little in taking or giving, There’s little in water or wine; This living, this living, this living Was never

a project of mine.

she claimed to be able to spot a Dana graduate a block away by her “general air, no matter

how glorious the weather, of being dressed in expectation of heavy rains.”

This isn’t just plain terrible; this is fancy.”

“Three be the things I shall never attain:

Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.”

Elmer Rice

he was being called America’s Ibsen.

for himself on the

total failure of a feminist’s life: EX-WIFE OF HEYWOOD

BROUN PASSES.

The Coast of Illyria,

The Ladies of the Corridor was completed at the end of the year,

Dorothy had begun thinking of it as a feminist

television program called Open End.

always wearing his pink sailor

hat.