Dorothy Parker: what fresh hell is this?

The Algonquin Hotel, summer 1927

The events leading up the tragedy, 1893-1903

Palimpsest, 1903-1914

Vanity Fair, 1915-1919

Cub lions, 1919

The Algonquin Round Table, 1920-1921

Painkillers, 1922-1923

Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye, 1923-1924

"Yessir, the whaddycall'em blues," 1925

Global disasters, 1926

Big Blonde, 1927-1928

Sonnets in suicide, or, The life of John Knox, 1929-1932

You might as well live, 1933-1935

Good fights, 1936-1937

Bad fights, 1937-1941

The leaking boat, 1942-1947

Toad time, 1948-1955

High-forceps deliveries, 1955-1960

Ham and cheese, hold the mayo, 1961-1964

Lady of the corridor, 1964-1967.