{"product_id":"constant-reader-by-dorothy-parker-9781961341258","title":"Constant Reader","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDorothy Parker's complete weekly \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e column about books and people and the rigours of reviewing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 rubric \u003cem\u003eConstant Reader\u003c\/em\u003e, she created what is still the most entertaining book column ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eParker's hot takes have lost none of their heat, whether she's taking aim at the evangelist Aimee Semple MacPherson ('She can go on like that for hours. Can, hell—does'), praising Hemingway's latest collection ('He discards detail with magnificent lavishness'), or dissenting from the Tao of Pooh ('And it is that word \"hummy\", my darlings, that marks the first place in \u003cem\u003eThe House at Pooh Corner\u003c\/em\u003e at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up').\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduced with characteristic wit and sympathy by Sloane Crosley, \u003cem\u003eConstant Reader\u003c\/em\u003e gathers the complete weekly \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e reviews that Parker published from October 1927 through November 1928, with gimlet-eyed appreciations of the high and low, from Isadora Duncan to Al Smith, Charles Lindbergh to Little Orphan Annie, Mussolini to Emily Post.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486006362348,"sku":"9781961341258","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/ef95e292bc5bcd7616a9708ff2e41c6b.jpg?v=1775784346","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/constant-reader-by-dorothy-parker-9781961341258","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}