A review by hallieelizabeth
Sunset Gun: Poems by Dorothy Parker

dark funny

4.0

i’ve read some of dorothy parker before this but this was my first collection by her. i adore her. i now have an answer to the question “if you could have dinner with anyone living or dead, who would it be?” she is so witty, so hilarious, so striking. she makes this writing seem so effortless. she talks about suicide, the troubles of love and dating, writing, being a woman, all with such humor and sardonicism and she does it so well. it’s just so fun and so well done. i adore her. sooo many of her quotes are so iconic. she also was fiercely anti-fascist. i can’t wait to read more of her work; i’m borrowing Enough Rope immediately. 


read this aloud!!