Author: Kevin Fitzpatrick

When Microsoft List Bot went kaput in August, we lost the e-mail addresses for almost all of the people getting the semi-monthly newsletter. Sorry about that one. Now we’re going with Topica, maybe they will be better. If you want to get the newsletter and join the DPSNY, enter your e-mail address below. We had…

Today was supposed to be the day a federal court hearing was to be held in the Dorothy Parker copyright case, but due to the horrific acts in New York and D.C. yesterday, we don’t know if this is going to happen. We first reported this in April, concerning Stuart Silverstein’s lawsuit against Penguin Putnam….

Maybe the site works now in Netscape. It’s been having bugs, reportedly by users with older versions of Netscape. Thanks to Henry, this should be fixed. Something to do with “nested tables” which sounds like birds in a restaurant to me. If you still have problems with the new designs, drop me a line. www.dorothyparker.com

Writer Dina Di Maio was kind enough to send us her Talk of the Town piece she wrote about Parkerfest 2001. It is on the site, click here. Thanks, Dina! www.dorothyparker.com

Eighty-Seven years ago this month, Dorothy Rothschild had her first poem published for money. “Any Porch” was accepted by Vanity Fair in 1914; the young writer was paid $12. You can read “Any Porch” in Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker (Scribners), available in the What The Hell Book Shop. It’s a…