The Brilliant And Troubled Dorothy Parker | Robert Gottlieb | New York Review of Books | 7th April 2016

Parker peaked early, doing her best work as a theatre critic in the 1920s and her second-best work as a book critic in the 1950s. “She was too sensible to live in regret, but she certainly understood how much of her life she had spent carousing and just fooling around”. In her writing “would always rise to the challenges of greatness and of garbage; it was what fell in between that drove her crazy.”