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CREATIVE READING: WHAT WRITERS CAN LEARN FROM THE SHORT STORIES OF DOROTHY PARKER
Tutor: Sarah Burton
Presented by: Between the Lines| 0 | ONLINE: ONLINE |
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| P | Sunday 23rd November, 2025 |
| N | 2:00pm |
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Best known to the general public, perhaps, for the devastating wit of her reviews, journalism and conversation, Dorothy Parker was also a highly successful poet, screenwriter and short story writer. Shedding a pitiless light particularly on relationships between men and women, her short stories are both funny and tragic. As writers we'll be analysing in particular her talent for scene-setting and character-revealing dialogue.
Reading (or re-reading) the stories is desirable but not essential. You can find those we'll be discussing - 'Wonderful Old Gentleman', 'Here We Are', 'Too Bad' and 'Mr Durant' - online here:
https://ia902902.us.archive.org/16/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.184951/2015.184951.The-Collected-Stories-Of-Dorothy-Parker.pdf
(If you want to buy, we recommend The Collected Dorothy Parker from Penguin.)
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