Dorothy Parker Society

New in the Constant Reader Book Shop is a new listing of plays & study guides for Dorothy Parker and her Round Table chums. Some of these are downloadable PDF files for all you students out there reading this. We also joined the iTunes program. So if you like downloading music, do it with us…

Today the United States Supreme Court let stand a ruling that said Penguin Putnam’s book Dorothy Parker Complete Poems did not violate copyright laws. Stuart Y. Silverstein had previously edited a similar book, Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, but the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals questioned whether his selection was…

Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin by Marion Meade was named one of the "finest books of the year" in a list by the San Francisco Chronicle. It concerns the 1920s of Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna Ferber and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Meade wrote the excellent Parker bio What Fresh Hell is This in 1987. The…

Dottie and her pals make an appearance in the comic stip Jazz Age Comics. Is this a first for the Round Table in this medium? History aside, George Gershwin wasn’t known to hang out with this group in the Twenties. And where did Mrs. Parker get that hat? Indiana Jones? Read it here… www.dorothyparker.com

Someone has already bought the $10,000 martini at the Algonquin Hotel’s Blue Bar, which we told you about last week. The story was all over the papers today, as a Westchester guy proposed to his girlfriend with a $13,000 martini & diamond. What would Dorothy Parker think of this? How about one of her classics:…

The Dorothy Parker copyright case we’ve been following since the late 1990s is now being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court. The article here says, "The question under copyright law is, to what degree did (Stuart) Silverstein exercise creativity in selecting and copyediting Parker’s lost verses for publication?" This case is the reason that Penguin…