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“This will cut down on my reading”: The three types of books Dorothy Parker never wanted to encounter again

September 13, 2022September 13, 2022
by Steven Beattie

“When the author gives me a scene of wild young passion, then I can no longer slog through the immediate follow-up of a tender description of the bendings of wheat in the breeze.”

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