The Dorothy Parker copyright fight was the subject of a Saturday article in the London Telegraph. The columnist says of Penguin’s editors, “we can wonder if they’re proud that their edition included evidence of little more scholarship than it takes to use a photocopier” and “There’s no law against slapdash publishing.” He writes that although…
Neko Case Shout Out to Dottie
Singer-Songwriter Neko Case, who’s latest album (or CD, or download) is called Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, just wrote an essay for Poetry magazine. In it, she says, “Dorothy Parker makes me manic! I can’t even make it through the first three lines of “The Godmother” without bursting into tears.” It is a nice essay…
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…
Penguin Wins U.S. Decision in Copyright Trial
The seven years of ongoing legal machinations of the Dorothy Parker Copyright Case, Stuart Y. Silverstein vs. Penguin Putnam, Inc., reached yesterday what could be the final phase. United States District Court Judge John F. Keenan issued on Nov. 7, 2007, a Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law (complete PDF here), and in it…
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…