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.