Oh, the joys of running a web site. I fixed some broken links on the Gallery page. And I got sick of the hospital green background and went with this blue tint. What do you think? Also, all the links/image galleries in the 1999 and 2000 Parkerfest pages are working again.
West Hollywood Home Added
We finally have added the Norma Place home to the site. This is where Alan Campbell died in 1963. By coincidence, two Los Angeles residents both sent in photos to the site the same week! We’ve been seeking someone to shoot photos of the little West Hollywood house since Aug. 1999, when the Hollywood section…
Merry Christmas
The Algonquin Hotel sent this very nice card out this season. This is the last update of 2000. If you are signed up for the newsletter (and if you aren’t, what’re you waiting for?) you’ll be getting the holiday message today. It was some year! The highlight for us was Parkerfest in August. What a…
John Keats dead at 79
Dorothy Parker’s first biographer, John Keats, died on Nov. 3 in Kingston, Ont. He was 79 and lived in Kingston and on Pine Island in Ontario, in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River. Thirty years ago, he penned the first biography of Mrs. Parker, You Might as Well Live: The Life and…
Talk at the Gonk
There’s a 90-minute talk and tour of the Algonquin Hotel on Sunday, Nov. 26. It is sponsored by the 92nd Street “Y” and called The Algonquin Round Table: Tea, Tales and Tour. It’s from 3-4:30 p.m. and tickets are $50 each. Moderator Jim Pappas says, “We’ll visit the Dorothy Parker (suite) and then have tea…
Beware of Online Sales
It seems like every week, someone on Ebay is selling a “first edition” or “first printing” of a Dorothy Parker book. Watch out. I’ve been looking at these closely, and very few, if any, are the real article. Some booksellers are tricking buyers into thinking they’re getting a “first” simply because there is either (a)…