Status Updates From The Portable Dorothy Parker

This is going to be one of the many books on my “currently reading “ that I am going to finish this year. Come hell or high water I am gonna get that darn list down to no more than 10 books.

Jesus this woman willed her estate and literary rights to the NAACP, what a Lenny Bruce move

This 600-page hardcover feels weirdly precious and heavy in my hands. There’s something about a collected works that feels raw, uncurated; it feels like I’m holding her ashes. I see that she liked Shirley Jackson — if I weren’t already eager to get to know the legendary Parker, that praise alone would have convinced me.