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Writer Dina Di Maio was kind enough to send us her Talk of the Town piece she wrote about Parkerfest 2001. It is on the site, click here. Thanks, Dina! www.dorothyparker.com

Eighty-Seven years ago this month, Dorothy Rothschild had her first poem published for money. “Any Porch” was accepted by Vanity Fair in 1914; the young writer was paid $12. You can read “Any Porch” in Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker (Scribners), available in the What The Hell Book Shop. It’s a…

If you notice something new about the site, it got a facelift. It feels like going from a Chevy to a Lexus for me. If you have any comments or find broken links, drop me a line. I hope that the site is easier to navigate, loads more quickly, and looks better. www.dorothyparker.com

The big Dorothy Parker copyright case ended up on page B1 of the Wall Street Journal today. Click here to read the story. Congrats to the writer, Lawrence Carrel, for the excellent piece of journalism. We told you first about this case on April 23 (see below) and put many of the court documents online…

Dot City hasn’t been known to break any news stories, or to sniff out material that’s outside the world of Dorothy Parker. But this “book battle” story is both intriguing and fascinating to any true Parker fan. Briefly, it’s about the legal wrangling going on right now in U.S. District Court between writer/editor Stuart Y….

We have a new addition to the site, the bungalow where Mrs. Parker and Alan Campbell lived in 1934 in Denver. I was out there for the NHL All-Star Game, so when the hockey was over, I was able to visit the house. It’s on a quiet little street and it’s filled with houses from…