Lost Dorothy Parker Christmas Story

[elleng]

In December 1916, one hundred years ago, Dorothy Parker was 23 and on the staff of Vogue. She would not be married until 1917, so she was still Dorothy Rothschild. This was her first year working for Condé Nast, her first professional job. Down the hall was Vanity Fair, which accepted this piece of writing. It has not been published since then. In 2017, the fiftieth anniversary of Dorothy Parker’s death, more lost gems such as this one will be published here.

The Christmas Magazines
And the Inevitable Story of the Snowbound Train
By Dorothy Rothschild
Vanity Fair, December, 1916

Every year I buy them—the Christmas magazines. Every year I say, hopefully, “Perhaps this time.” And every year I say, wearily, “Never again.”

But I’ll go on buying them, and I know it. Hope does die so hard within me. Somewhere, some time, possibly here, perhaps in Heaven, I shall find a Christmas magazine without the story of the snowbound train.'>>>

http://www.dorothyparker.com/wordpress/2016/12/lost-dorothy-parker-christmas-story.html

[shenmue]

1. Thanks!