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As we told you last month, author Marion Meade has scheduled two readings/book signings to promote her new work Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin. The book, about Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Zelda Fitzgerald and Edna St. Vincent Millay during the Twenties, came out today from Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. Read a story about it here. The…
Just in time for the holidays, we got a message from David Trumbull from The Robert Benchley Society in Cambridge. The Robert Benchley Society announces a “top ten” list of humorous holiday readings.The list includes two pieces by Mr. Benchley along with eight other humor authors.Members of the Robert Benchley Society suggested readings for the…
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…
There is a great video now on sale in the Book Shop that captures on film three of the key members of the Algonquin Round Table: Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and Donald Ogden Stewart. Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin is a must-have for fans of the Gonk. The video is a compilation…
Writer-Researcher on Parker, her place in American letters, and the Algonquin Round Table We have the good fortune to ask Ten Questions of Stuart Y. Silverstein. His 1996 book, Not Much Fun, The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, presented for the first time more than 120 poems not found in other Parker collections. The book…