Author: Kevin Fitzpatrick

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…

The message boards have been hacked. We suspect fans of Lillian Hellman or Ernest Hemingway did it. Sorry, stay tuned for when the boards will be back up. www.dorothyparker.com

Someone sent me this years ago; I’ve been waiting to spring it on you. I file it under "Things That Sound Like Dorothy Paker Would Say, But I Don’t Have Any Proof That She Really Did" … YOU COME RIGHT OVER HEREAND EXPLAIN WHY THEYARE HAVING ANOTHER YEAR –Telegram from Dottie to Robert Benchley one…

New in the Constant Reader Book Shop is a new listing of plays & study guides for Dorothy Parker and her Round Table chums. Some of these are downloadable PDF files for all you students out there reading this. We also joined the iTunes program. So if you like downloading music, do it with us…

Today the United States Supreme Court let stand a ruling that said Penguin Putnam’s book Dorothy Parker Complete Poems did not violate copyright laws. Stuart Y. Silverstein had previously edited a similar book, Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, but the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals questioned whether his selection was…

Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin by Marion Meade was named one of the "finest books of the year" in a list by the San Francisco Chronicle. It concerns the 1920s of Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna Ferber and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Meade wrote the excellent Parker bio What Fresh Hell is This in 1987. The…