Special event: “Dorothy Parker’s Upper West Side” on Saturday, Nov. 12. Meet at Riverside Park, West 72nd Street and Riverside Drive (at Eleanor Roosevelt) at 12 p.m. Walk is led by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, author of A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York and president of the Dorothy Parker Society. See more than a dozen…
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Deadline Extended for Jenny Award Videos
In August we announced the Jenny Award video campaign. We are now extending the deadline for submission to Oct. 31. Make your best Dorothy Parker video and win some prizes! Get it up now! All information here.
Lou Reed a Parker Reader
In 1999 we had a passing Lou Reed reference to Dorothy Parker. Thanks to eagle-eye Wes, we got a tip to another and better quote from the rock icon today, from an old interview with music journalist Bruce Pollock from the June 1985 issue of Guitar magazine: And then we talked about prose. “Dorothy Parker…
Video Killed the Poetry Star
In our August e-newsletter (which has returned after a 7-month hiatus) this month, I included a video clip, on a whim, that I found charming. This is what I wrote: “Poem of the Month: This month, we have two: Unfortunate Coincidence and Theory. However, instead of reprinting them here (because you should own Complete Poems…
Brazil Nightclub Salutes Parker Reputation
I just finished writing about a Dorothy Parker play in the Netherlands, when I was alerted to more international Parker news. This time it’s on the other side of the globe, in Brazil. It seems that the hottest new nightclub/disco is called Dorothy Parker, and caters to the upscale crowd in Sao Paulo. An English-language…
Parker Translates to Dutch in New Play
The Dorothy Parker Society is always thrilled to hear about foreign translations of her work, because it continues to show the universal appeal of her words. In the past few years Mrs. Parker’s work has been presented in Portuguese, French, German and Russian. There have been English-language adaptations of her work put into productions recently…