Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
There’s a 90-minute talk and tour of the Algonquin Hotel on Sunday, Nov. 26. It is sponsored by the 92nd Street “Y” and called The Algonquin Round Table: Tea, Tales and Tour. It’s from 3-4:30 p.m. and tickets are $50 each. Moderator Jim Pappas says, “We’ll visit the Dorothy Parker (suite) and then have tea…
It seems like every week, someone on Ebay is selling a “first edition” or “first printing” of a Dorothy Parker book. Watch out. I’ve been looking at these closely, and very few, if any, are the real article. Some booksellers are tricking buyers into thinking they’re getting a “first” simply because there is either (a)…
Written for Expedia Travels Magazine, November 2000 By James A. Martin, ©2001 James A. Martin NEW YORK — The woman who coined the phrases “what the hell,” “one-night stand,” and “ball of fire” is now the focus of a Manhattan tour that begins on the Web and ends, if you time it right, in a…
Another connection to Mrs. Parker and the Algonquin has passed away. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr., who had been the last surviving member of the blacklisted “Hollywood Ten,” died of cancer Oct. 31 at his Manhattan apartment. He was 85. Lardner won Oscars for best original screenplay with Michael Kanin for the 1942…
One of Dorothy Parker’s contemporaries is hitting the New York scene in a big way. Tallulah Bankhead, a late addition to the Algonquin Round Table, is the subject of no less than three shows on and off-Broadway. Kathleen Turner is in one of them. One can expect Mrs. Parker’s name to be among the scripts…
More national coverage about the Dorothy Parker Society. This is from USA Today. Read the article here. Reporter A.S. Berman says of the website: …a website allows a new generation to follow Parker’s life in the BigApple. The journey sometimes feels more like a pub crawl through cyberspace thana hyperlinked history lesson. www.dorothyparker.com