SOURCE: Barreca, Regina. “Introduction.” In Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker, edited by Colleen Breese, pp. vii-xix. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.
In the following essay, Barreca delineates the defining characteristics of Parker's short fiction and counters the negative critical assessment of her work.
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