Announcing the Dorothy Parker’s Upper West Side Walking Tour, Saturday, March 31, 12:00 p.m. Meet at Riverside Park, West 72nd Street and Riverside Drive (at Eleanor Roosevelt) Walk is led by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, author of A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York and president of the Dorothy Parker Society. See more than a dozen…
Author: Kevin Fitzpatrick
I'm a writer and sightseeing guide. I'm the author and editor of seven books tied to New York history. I started the Dorothy Parker Society in 1999 with friends at the Algonquin Hotel.
Mid-Manhattan Branch of NYPL to Read Parker Fiction
The Dorothy Parker Society is a major fan of the New York Public Library. We have to say that no other library system in the world can touch it. We have two favorite branches: The Mid-Manhattan Branch, which houses the largest circulating collections of the entire NYPL, and the 1902 Yorkville Branch, which is the…
Joyce Carol Oates Beats Dorothy Parker Out of NJ Hall of Fame
On February 10, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced the 11 new members of the state hall of fame and once again Dorothy Parker was passed over. The class of 2012 nominees had Parker running in the “general” category among nine others. Author Joyce Carol Oates, winner of the National Book Award and two O….
Monthly Wit’s End Party Feb. 25 with The Hot Sardines
Wit’s End and the Dorothy Parker Society invite you to celebrate the Social Life of the Jazz Age with Hot Jazz from The Hot Sardines! Saturday, Feb. 25, 7pm-Midnight Flute Midtown, 205 West 54th Street, near Broadway Come in your finest 1920s & 1930s vintage or vintage inspired evening attire and celebrate in style with…
Ten Year Lunch Screens with Director at MoMa
Every February, The Museum of Modern Art presents Oscar’s Docs, an annual collaboration between the Academy Film Archive and MoMA’s Department of Film Oscar winners in the categories of Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short Subject. This February, they will screen Aviva Slesin’s Academy Award winning documentary, The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and…
Edna Ferber in Hall of Fame with Dorothy Parker
Edna Ferber will join Dorothy Parker in the New York Writers Hall of Fame, it was announced last night at the Forbes Gallery on Fifth Avenue. Ferber will join 13 other writers, four living, the others deceased, in the Class of 2012. A gala on June 5 at the Princeton Club will honor all inductees….