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| | TravelSmart Newsletter Book Recommendations |
 | | After devouring Kevin C. Fitzpatrick's book, you might be tempted to think of it as a Dorothy Parker encyclopedia - since it is filled with just about everything one could hope to discover about the noted writer, critic, defender of human and civil rights and humorist - although she herself preferred the term "satirist." |
 | | She is also somewhat fancifully described as being comprised of "equal parts bootleg scotch, Broadway lights, speakeasy smoke, skyscraper steel, streetcar noise, and jazz horns" - since, for much of her extraordinary life, the former Dorothy Rothschild worked and played on the isle of Manhattan. |
 | | This is a book so well documented with street maps, footnotes, and photographs that one could easily use it to organize a "Dorothy Parker Walking Tour"; although that's one of the things that the author, who is also the founder of the Dorothy Parked Society, specializes in. |
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