Status Updates From The Portable Dorothy Parker

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.