The first 2012 Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour will take place just after the hotel completes a multi-million dollar renovation and refurbishment. Saturday, May 26, Noon-2 p.m. Location: Algonquin Hotel, 59 W. 44th St (bet 5th and 6th Avenues). Cost: $20 per person. Walk in the footsteps of the Vicious Circle in the only walking…
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Ten Year Lunch Screens with Director at MoMa
Every February, The Museum of Modern Art presents Oscar’s Docs, an annual collaboration between the Academy Film Archive and MoMA’s Department of Film Oscar winners in the categories of Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short Subject. This February, they will screen Aviva Slesin’s Academy Award winning documentary, The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and…
Edna Ferber in Hall of Fame with Dorothy Parker
Edna Ferber will join Dorothy Parker in the New York Writers Hall of Fame, it was announced last night at the Forbes Gallery on Fifth Avenue. Ferber will join 13 other writers, four living, the others deceased, in the Class of 2012. A gala on June 5 at the Princeton Club will honor all inductees….
New Book Imagines Round Table Chatter
We got a press release today about a new self-published book based on the Algonquin Round Table. The PR says… A new book, Lunch at the Algonquin, featuring the 1920s celebrities now known as the Algonquin Round Table, or “The Vicious Circle,” is now available in paperback and in Kindle format. The author, Mr. Kim…
Final Walking Tour of 2011 is Dec. 4
Come out to the last walking tour of 2011! Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour Sunday, Dec. 4, Noon-2 p.m. Location: Algonquin Hotel, 59 W. 44th St (bet 5th and 6th Avenues) Cost: $20 Walk in the footsteps of the Vicious Circle in the only walking tour dedicated to the city’s greatest literary friends. See the…
Ghosts on West 44th Street?
I’ve been leading walking tours that start and end in the Algonquin Hotel for about 13 years. Many people have asked me if the hotel is haunted, or if Dorothy Parker’s ghost is ever spotted roaming the hallways. I have to say, I don’t think it is possessed, but there have been several people who…