It has been awhile since we tapped the YouTube vault for a Dorothy Parker video. This gem is actually a radio broadcast by one of Mrs. Parker’s associates, Tallulah Bankhead. She rolls through “The Waltz” in a radio performance from NBC’s The Big Show, January 7th 1951. At least Mrs. Parker was around to enjoy…
Year: 2010
A Conversation with Stuart Y. Silverstein
No collection of Dorothy Parker books is complete without owning Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, which first came out in 1996. Published by Scribner to much acclaim, it presented for the first time more than 100 poems and bits of verse that Mrs. Parker did not collect in her lifetime. Due…
New Dorothy Parker Book & Author Talks
Scribner recently published a new edition of Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker. This is exciting because it is an updated version of the 1996 book. Editor/Compiler Stuart Y. Silverstein gave the DPS an exclusive new interview about the book, and he will be in New York City in January to talk…