I recently acquired a rare Dorothy Parker photo I had never seen in more than 20 years of collecting. I was familiar with the image, because a similar one is on a dust jacket (The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker, Modern Library) and it appears it was taken moments apart. This image is…
Author: Kevin Fitzpatrick
Halloween Tour of Childhood & Young Adult Homes
Celebrate Halloween with the life of Dorothy Parker. The walking tour of her homes and haunts on the Upper West Side will be offered Thursday, Oct. 31, at Noon. We visit about 15 places related to the life of young Dorothy Rothschild, her family, and her lifestyle. See her school and where Dottie walked her…
NY Distilling Debuts Dorothy Parker Rose Petal Gin
The New York Distilling Company has extended its Dorothy Parker gin range with the launch of a limited edition expression infused with rose petals and elderberries. Dorothy Parker Rose Petal Gin is made with pink and red rose petals and crushed elderberries – one of the key botanicals in the core gin. Limited to 10,000…
New Yorker Podcast Reads 1955 Parker
In a curious episode of The New Yorker podcast, a Dorothy Parker short story deemed so poor it was dropped from the latest edition of The Portable Dorothy Parker was chosen. “I Live On Your Visits” is read on the podcast by Pulitzer Prize winning author Andrew Sean Greer. He says that a friend gave…
Dorothy Parker Society Turns 20; Celebrates Parkerfest
This week is not only the 126th anniversary of Dorothy Parker’s birth, it is also the 20th anniversary of the Dorothy Parker Society. Lift your glass today for a toast. On August 28, 1999, a walking tour set out from the Upper West Side, beginning at 214 West Seventy-second Street (recently demolished childhood home of…
Building Rises at Demolished Parker Childhood Home
A porta potty stands in the spot where Dorothy Parker’s front door once was. The last childhood home young Dottie Rothschild shared with both parents—her mother Eliza Marston Rothschild died when she was just four—is today a construction zone at 214 West Seventy-second Street, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. This was the Rothschild family home…