Dorothy Parker, Smart Magazines, and the Susceptible Body
Catherine Keyser
Read:
Catherine Keyser, New York Women Writers (chapt. 1-2); Dorothy Parker “The Garter”
Suggested Additional Readings: Sharon M. Harris (ed.), Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, 1830-1910 (Northeastern UP, 2004); Michael Lesy “Life Begins” in A New Literary History of America, eds. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2009); Kirsten MacLeod, American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle: Art, Protest, and Cultural Transformation (University of Toronto Press, 2018); Ben Yagoda, About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made (Duckworth, 2000)
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"Anne Hathaway reads a selection from Dorothy Parker's short story, "The Garter," first published in The New Yorker in 1928. Recorded at the Lapham's Quarterly Decades Ball, May 14, 2012".