You don’t want Dorothy Parker reviewing your novel — at least not when she’s dropping zingers like “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force.” Parker did have a way with words. How about this description of another birthday rolling around: “This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible, it was terrible with raisins in it.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Dorothy Parker Book Reviews”
Grant, one person you don’t want reviewing your new novel is Dorothy Parker.
Is she still alive?
Fortunately, well…
From the grave.
Yeah, for the sake of novelists, you don’t want Dorothy Parker reviewing your novel because…
I just came across this great line from her.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Isn’t that awful?
And then I was also reading this passage where she was talking about something that she thought was terrible.
And she said, this wasn’t just plain terrible. This was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
That’s very good.
Isn’t that great?
It wasn’t applied to literature. It was realizing that she had a birthday.
But still, terrible with raisins in it.
I love it.
Nice.
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