Lovely essay in the @publicdomainrev on the incomparable Dorothy Parker, who provides a coruscating epigraph to my forthcoming book:
"What kind of civilization is it that would take telephones into its privacy so that it could be got at any time, night and day, by anyone with the wit to think of a few numbers and vileness to do nothing but sigh into its drain when that awful, vulnerable idiot answers it.”
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/when-dorothy-parker-got-fired-from-vanity-fair/
