Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
I recently acquired a rare Dorothy Parker photo I had never seen in more than 20 years of collecting. I was familiar with the image, because a similar one is on a dust jacket (The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker, Modern Library) and it appears it was taken moments apart. This image is…
Celebrate Halloween with the life of Dorothy Parker. The walking tour of her homes and haunts on the Upper West Side will be offered Thursday, Oct. 31, at Noon. We visit about 15 places related to the life of young Dorothy Rothschild, her family, and her lifestyle. See her school and where Dottie walked her…
The New York Distilling Company has extended its Dorothy Parker gin range with the launch of a limited edition expression infused with rose petals and elderberries. Dorothy Parker Rose Petal Gin is made with pink and red rose petals and crushed elderberries – one of the key botanicals in the core gin. Limited to 10,000…
In a curious episode of The New Yorker podcast, a Dorothy Parker short story deemed so poor it was dropped from the latest edition of The Portable Dorothy Parker was chosen. “I Live On Your Visits” is read on the podcast by Pulitzer Prize winning author Andrew Sean Greer. He says that a friend gave…
This week is not only the 126th anniversary of Dorothy Parker’s birth, it is also the 20th anniversary of the Dorothy Parker Society. Lift your glass today for a toast. On August 28, 1999, a walking tour set out from the Upper West Side, beginning at 214 West Seventy-second Street (recently demolished childhood home of…
A porta potty stands in the spot where Dorothy Parker’s front door once was. The last childhood home young Dottie Rothschild shared with both parents—her mother Eliza Marston Rothschild died when she was just four—is today a construction zone at 214 West Seventy-second Street, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. This was the Rothschild family home…
Dorothy Parker wrote reviews of all four women who are on the I. Miller Building in Duffy Square. Today it celebrates 20 years as a city landmark. It was recently restored to some of it’s former beauty. It’s on the walking tours of the Algonquin Round Table sites; all four stars on the building were…
The Algonquin Hotel is not going to let the centennial of the first luncheon of the Algonquin Round Table pass without notice. The national literary landmark has planned an entire summer of events to celebrate the Vicious Circle, which began as a welcome home roast for critic Alexander Woollcott in June 1919. To mark the…
It took Condé Nast long enough, but finally there is a digital archive of the complete run of Vanity Fair. For Dorothy Parker fans, this is important, because it contains some of her earliest writing of prose, reviews, and poems. Now readers can see the pieces in the original format as they were presented in…
Good news, A Star Is Born fans. It is getting good reviews and is “certified fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes. After a week in theaters it’s doing really well and generating Oscar buzz. Dorothy Parker is also being mentioned in news stories as being part of the original Oscar-named original picture. We’ve been tracking this movie…