Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28 John S Freidin Toothy side lugs to hug

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Just legends--and the darkness it takes to make them

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Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28 John S Freidin Toothy side lugs to hugDorothy Parker's complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing. 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 rupic Constant Reader, she created what is still the most entertaining book column ever written.