The degree of separation between Dorothy Parker and the president of France is 1. That would be Carla Bruni. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, took Bruni on a trip to Egypt over the Christmas holiday, stepping out into headlines with the stunning French-Italian supermodel/singer. Sarkozy recently announced he and his wife split up. With Bruni…
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Penguin Potshots & Silverstein Stew: Ruminations on the Parker Book Battle
Not a single Sunday newspaper pundit yesterday mentioned the Dorothy Parker Copyright Fight. Maureen Dowd dropped a Parker quote into her column, however, she was writing about the screenwriters strike. The entire media-publishing blogosphere rolled over and played dead on this one, so I will take a crack at a post mortem. This past week…
Magazine with Parker Tie is Shuttered
A magazine that folded today was among the many that published Dorothy Parker’s work. In a story that was broken on Media Bistro’s blog, FishbowlNY, Condé Nast announced today that House and Garden would cease publication in both print and online. Others launched the magazine in 1901; according to the Chronology of New York by…
Photos posted from October events
Dorothy Parker events in October were a lot of fun to attend. Yesterday was a nice turnout at the Bowery Poetry Club for the Parker lecture that was part of the Poets in NY series put on by Rattapallax (special thanks to Publisher Ram Devineni for the fine job). Earlier this month, we had a…
Parkerfest From Uptown to Downtown
NEW YORK — Parkerfest 2007 was another fantastic event that took place all across Manhattan: The East Village, Midtown, Upper West Side, Gramercy Park, and wound up in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. It was a weekend of cabs and subways for the crowd, some of which came from Alaska. The Dorothy Parker Society…
Adopted Cat Taking it Easy in NJ
In August at the birthday party for Matilda at the Algonquin Hotel, Jordan and Kim adopted a rescue cat. The two members of the Dorothy Parker Society took part in a unique event during the media circus, where the North Shore Animal League set up an adoption station. The couple from New Jersey adopted an…