The portable Dorothy Parker

Introduction

Suggestions for Further Reading. Part One: The Original Portable as Arranged by Dorothy Parker in 1944: The Lovely Leave

Arrangement in Black and White

The Sexes

The Standard of Living

Mr. Durant

The Waltz

The Wonderful Old Gentleman

Song of the Shirt, 1941

Enough Rope (Poems)

A Telephone Call

Here We Are

Dusk before Fireworks

You were Perfectly Fine

Mrs. Hofstadter on Josephine Street

Soldiers of the Republic

Too Bad

The Last Tea

Big Blonde

Sunset Gun (Poems)

Just a Little One

Lady with a Lamp

The Little Hours

Horsie

Glory in the Daytime

New York to Detroit

Death and Taxes (Poems)

The Custard Heart

From the Diary of a New York Lady

Cousin Larry

Little Curtis

Sentiment

Clothe the Naked

War Song (Poem).

Part Two: Other Writings: Such a Pretty Little Picture, Smart Set, December 1922

Advice to the Little Peyton Girl, Harper's Bazaar, February 1933

The Game, Cosmopolitan, December 1948

The Banquet of Crow, The New Yorker, December 14, 1957

The Bolt Behind the Blue, Esquire, December 1958

Interior Desecration, Vogue, April 15, 1917

Here Comes the Groom, Vogue, June 15, 1917

Week's End, (New York) Life, July 21, 1927

My Home town, McCall's, January 1928

Not Enough, New Masses, March 14, 1939

Destructive Decoration, House and Garden, November 1942

From Vanity Fair, 1918-1919: Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, Redemption by Leo Tolstoi, Dear Brutus by J.M. Barrie

From Ainslee's (In Broadway Playhouses), 1921: The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill, Ziegfeld Follies of 1921

From The New Yorker (Substituting for Robert Benchley), 1931, The Barretts of Wimpole Street by Rudolf Besier, Give Me Yesterday by A.A. Milne, The Admirable Crichton by J.M. Barrie

From The New Yorker (Constant Reader), 1927-1931: The President's Daughter by Nan Britton, Men without Women by Ernest Hemingway, Happiness by William Lyon Phelps, A President is Born by Fannie Hurst; Claire Ambler by Booth Tarkington

Literary Rotarians: Appendicitis by Thew Wright, M.D.; Art of the Night by George Jean Nathan, The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne, Round Up by Ring Lardner

Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts, compiled by Charles Noel Douglas, The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett, Dawn by Theodore Dreiser, The Grandmother of the Aunt of the Gardner

From The New York Times Book Review, 1957: The Road to Miltown, Or Under the Spreading Atrophy by S.J. Perelman

From Esquire, 1958-1959: The American Earthquake by Edmund Wilson; The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac; Ice Palace by Edna Ferber, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote; The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike, The Yeas with Ross by James Thurber.

Part Three: A Dorothy Parker Sampler: Any Porch, Vanity Fair, September 15, 1915

Sorry, the Line is Busy, Life, April 21, 1921

In the Throes, (New York) Life, September 16, 1924

For R.C.B., The New Yorker, January 7, 1928

Untitled Birthday Lament, c. 1927

The Garter, The New Yorker, September 8, 1928

Sophisticated Poetry and the Hell With It, New Masses, June 27, 1939

Introduction: The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments, by James Thurber, 1932

The Function of the Writer, Address, Esquire Magazine Symposium, October 1958 [extract]

New York at 6:30 P.M., Esquire, November 1964

Self-Portrait from The Paris Review, "Writers at Work," 1956

Letters 1905-1962: To Henry Rothschild, 1905

To Henry Rothschild, 1905

To Harold Ross, 1927

To Harold Ross, no date

To Seward Collins, 1927

To Helen Rothschild Droste, 1929

To Robert Charles Benchley, 1929

To Sara and Gerald Murphy, 1934

To F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934

To Alexander Woollcott, 1935

To Harold Guinzburg, 1935

To Helen Rothschild Grimwood, c. 1939

To Malcolm Cowley, 1958

To Morton Zabel, 1958

To John Patrick, 1962.