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We got a press release from Thomas Saunders of the Robert Benchley Society. He points us to a new book of Benchley work coming out this month: The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises From The Detroit Athletic Club News By Robert Benchley Presented in their original form these pieces have not been seen in decades. Hilarious and…
The Portable Dorothy Parker was the only book of Mrs. Parker’s work in print when she died in 1967. Today readers can practically put together an entire bookshelf of work by and about Mrs. Parker. To add to this Parker Pantheon is a new book from Penguin Classics that collects almost all of her poems—both…
We got word that there is a new show based on Dorothy Parker material, the first one for 2010 (and it won’t be the last). The show is running in Mrs. Parker’s old neighborhood too, the Upper West Side. “Against Her Better Judgement” runs at the Drilling Company Theater, 236 West 78th Street, February 11-13th…
Dorothy Parker has been passed over for inclusion in the inaugural group of a dozen authors named to the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. The list of writers whose “writings have made a lasting contribution to literature” was chosen by the New York Library Association and they will be feted at a gala…
Announcing a night to salute Dorothy Parker in her old neighborhood, the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Come out on Monday, February 15, 7pm, to Barnes & Noble, 150 E. 86th Street, for the “Writers on Writers” series. The “Dorothy Parker Post-Valentine Recovery Night” will feature brief talks about Parker by Marion Meade (editor of…
It has been awhile since we tapped the YouTube vault for a Dorothy Parker video. This gem is actually a radio broadcast by one of Mrs. Parker’s associates, Tallulah Bankhead. She rolls through “The Waltz” in a radio performance from NBC’s The Big Show, January 7th 1951. At least Mrs. Parker was around to enjoy…