Marion Meade’s essay in Bookforum, which we mentioned recently, is going on the air. National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition is doing a segment on the essay this (4/22/06) weekend. If you live in New York, it is on WNYC-AM from 8-11 a.m. and WNYC-FM from 8-10 a.m. The show is also archived on NPR.org the…
$4 Million Gets You Dottie’s House
Anyone have a spare $4 million around? That is the price the owners of Dorothy and Alan’s Bucks County, Pennsylvania, home are asking. Someone sent me the listing today, which I posted here. It really is an amazing piece of property. I had of course read about the home in Marion Meade’s book (she visited…
Book Talk with Marion Meade
Just announced: Wednesday, April 5, 6:30pm at the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction (17 East 47th Street). “Marion Meade on Dorothy Parker” Join us as Marion Meade speaks on the infamous Dorothy Parker. Published March 28 is The Portable Dorothy Parker, edited by and with an introduction by Marion Meade. This is the second revision…
BookForum Article on Parker-Hellman History
The first major magazine article on Dorothy Parker and her history with Lillian Hellman is in the April issue of BookForum. The story is by Marion Meade, who goes beyond her 1988 book, “Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?” to shed new light on the dysfunction between the two. I have never been a…
Interviews and Stories Added About New Book
We’re having the party on the 28th to celebrate the release of “The Portable Dorothy Parker.” Today I added interviews I did with Marion Meade, who edited the book and wrote the introduction, and Seth, who is the cartoonist who drew the cover and the jacket design. In the Meade interview, she says, “I took…
Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes Reading Series
This was sent to us by Dorothy Parker Society member Carol Novack, who is doing a readin in Greenwich Village on 3/25. She also runs Mad Hatters’ Review: Edgy and Enlightened Literature, Art and Music in the Age of Dementia Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes Reading SeriesCurated by Publisher/Editor Carol NovackInaugural Reading: Friday, April 7th,…