Men I'm Not Married To (Stories)

Dorothy Parker was the wittiest woman in 1920s New York, and these twenty-three sketches prove it. Written with the precision of a surgeon and the venom of a spurned lover, each piece dissects a different man who orbited her glittering, vicious social world. The targets range from the pretentious to the pathetic, the insufferably dull to the aggressively ambitious. What makes these portraits endure isn't just their precision - it's Parker's underlying declaration of independence. Every scathing line whispers: this is why I'm not married to you, and wouldn't have you any other way. For readers who love sharp humor, early feminist sass, and the particular pleasure of watching a master verbally eviscerate the pompous, this collection is pure joy.