Today’s Poem: Convalescent

The brittle laughter of Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker and other members of the Algonquin Round Table, 1919 (Wikimedia Commons)

In a New York Times obituary, Alden Whitman (who wrote most of the Times obits in the 1960s and 70s) evoked Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), seminal New Yorker writer and member of the famous Algonquin Round Table, as “a little woman with a dollish face and basset-hound ey…