Author: Kevin Fitzpatrick

We are trying to pull off — for the first time ever — a gathering of the Dorothy Parker Society, Robert Benchley Society and International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society. The date is Saturday, April 16, 2005 at 7 pm. We of course will be at The Algonquin Hotel. The evening is the same day as…

This New Yorker Roz Chast cartoon was sent in by Jayne, she says its at least 20 years old. How The Plaza changes hands… again. We are trying to get Eloise moved to The Algonquin! www.dorothyparker.com

Monday, Feb. 21 is the first of the Algonquin Hotel’s "spoken word" series of free talks on its famed Second Floor. Marion Meade is going to be talking about her most recent book, Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin: Writer’s Running Wild in the Twenties (which comes out in paperback in a few months). In addition…

Dorothy Parker’s best friend was Robert Benchley. Like Mrs. Parker, Mr. Benchley has a society that keeps his memory alive. And they are working with a humor publication to find someone funny enough to stand up to him. From their press release: The Robert Benchley Society and Espree Magazine announce a contest for humor writers….

If you attended the cocktail party at The Plaza on Thursday, and were at the DPSNY table, read the bill. We had close to 30 people turn out on a bitterly cold night. But that didn’t stop us from consuming gin, vodka, rum, wine and beer. Some of us really put a lot of booze…

It is a good thing we had our party at The Plaza last week, because as suspected, the place is doomed. In the Times today: Confirming rumors that had swirled in real estate circles for months, the real estate developer who bought the Plaza last fall said yesterday that the 805-room hotel would be turned…