Constant Reader Mothers Day and her place in history

and her place in history

and shadows are gathering to dance

or the legendary number of brothels

Hank Willis Thomas

but every blow is wrapped in a laugh of recognition

Constant Reader Mothers Day and her place in historyDorothy Parkers complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing. When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, 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 rupic Constant Reader, she created what is still the most entertaining book column ever written. Parkers