Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
June is the anniversary month of the passing of both Dorothy Parker and husband Alan Campbell. It will be a good time to revisit a little-known chapter of their lives, a radio play they co-wrote in 1939 that was never collected into a book or magazine. The anniversary of Alan’s death is June 14, 1963;…
Photos of Dorothy Parker are not plentiful. There are perhaps 50 or so out in the public realm, in total. That seems odd in today’s Instagram-driven culture. But there are really not that many. So when a new one popped up on the New York Public Library Digital Archive in 2014, it was a revelation….
I’ve turned the Dorothy Parker walking tour into a virtual tour. I supply the tour, you can watch with a martini (don’t spill it). It’s cat and dog friendly too in the spirit of Mrs. Parker. Plus we can cover a lot more ground together. I’m offering them on Mondays and Saturdays for three weeks,…
In these heartbreaking times of the coronavirus and fears of a global pandemic, when the outbreak is impacting millions of lives and scores of families have already lost loved ones, many commentators and historians are writing about the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919. The mysterious form of the influenza virus killed between 20 and 40 million…
In the world of “lost” Dorothy Parker poems, there is no greater sleuth than Stuart Y. Silverstein. His groundbreaking 1996 book Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, uncovered more than 120 pieces that Parker had not collected in her lifetime. In 2020, four more are included to the realm of missing poems….
In late November a shotgun-toting schmuck took shots at an American Bald Eagle in rural Missouri. She was wounded in her leg and wing, coming down in a cornfield northwest of Granville, in Monroe County. Quick-thinking by the landowner drew agents from the Missouri Department of Conservation to rescue the bird. Although bald eagles are…