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Author Marion Meade has scheduled two readings/book signings to promote her new work Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin. The book, about Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Edna St. Vincent Millay during the Twenties, comes out May 18 from Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. The first reading is Wednesday, May 19, 6 pm at The Corner…
Just in time for the holidays, we got a message from David Trumbull from The Robert Benchley Society in Cambridge. The Robert Benchley Society announces a “top ten” list of humorous holiday readings.The list includes two pieces by Mr. Benchley along with eight other humor authors.Members of the Robert Benchley Society suggested readings for the…
Great news for all Dorothy Parker fans: author Marion Meade has a new book coming out May 18, 2004 about our favorite person. Meade wrote the definitive and best Parker biography Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This? in 1987. Now she goes back to the well one more time for Bobbed Hair and Bathtub…
NEW YORK — One of Dorothy Parker’s friends, New York World editor Herbert Bayard Swope, once said, “I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” Swope knew a thing or two about hosting big parties, and he would…
Penguin Classics is re-launching its entire backlist in January 2003 and “Dorothy Parker Complete Stories” is among the first 21 books getting a new look. “Complete Stories” – first released in 1995 – will come out with a new cover. The art is the famous Al Hirschfeld cartoon of Mrs. Parker peeking from behind a…
Janet or Jennifer, who’s the best Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester? Jennifer Lopez could succeed Janet Gaynor (and Judy Garland & Barbra Streisand). Hollywood insiders say that a remake of A Star Is Born is in the works. Dorothy Parker was nominatated for an Academy Award for her screenplay for the 1937 original, which she wrote with…