Ep 317: Dorothy Parker (Winter of Wayback 1929)
Mar 09, 2020•54 min
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Episode description
It's the final episode of our Winter of Wayback season, and we couldn't leave the twenties behind without talking about Dorothy Parker. Like a lot of people these days, both of us knew Parker only from her many famous quips, so we wanted to see what her actual writing was like. The story we read is one of her most popular--it won an O'Henry award, and is still regularly anthologized--but it wasn't what either of us expected.
Also this week: a bit of 1929 flash fiction that still holds up, plus monkey news!
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