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Book Review of The Portable Dorothy Parker

The Portable Dorothy Parker
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One of the most quotable of 20th century authors, Dorothy Parker has attained a wide ranging and enthusiastic following. This revised and enlarged edition, with an introduction by Brendan Gill, comprises the original 1944 PORTABLE, as seclected and arranged by Dorothy Parker herself and including all her most celebrated poems and stories, along with a selection of her later stories, play reviews, articles, book reviews from ESQUIRE, and the complete CONSTANT READER, her collected NEW YORKER book reviews.
...from the back cover of the book