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Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall Reads “Big Blonde”

Posted on March 21, 2022March 20, 2022 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Dorothy Parker only wrote about fifty short stories, and of this list, her 1929 “Big Blonde” stands out as a favorite of fans, and of hers. It was given to Seward Collins, Parker’s paramour of the era, to publish in his magazine, The Smart Set. The tale of Hazel Morse, a dissipated party girl and…

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Free Audio Recording of ‘Dialogue at Three in the Morning’

Posted on January 1, 2022December 31, 2021 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Today is Public Domain Day and the Dorothy Parker Society is marking the day with the release of a brand-new recording of “Dialogue at Three in the Morning” produced by professional voiceover artist Kimberly M. Wetherell. Today 47 poems and five short stories by Parker enter the public domain in the U.S. This is the…

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The World of Dorothy Parker

Audio Collection Update, Hear Mrs. Parker

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

The audio collection of Dorothy Parker reading her own work, plus some other pieces, are now migrated to the new server. Dorothy Parker made two full-length LP recordings of her work: 1956: Her first LP is from Spoken Arts, An Informal Hour with Dorothy Parker (Spoken Arts 726). 1964: Verve asked her to read her…

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Algonquin Hotel

Rare 1952 Algonquin Hotel Radio Show Uncovered

Posted on November 10, 2014May 3, 2016 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

While researching my book The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide, I uncovered a lost 1952 radio show recorded inside the Algonquin Hotel, The Tex and Jinx Show. Among the guests are owner Ben Bodne, Broadway librettist Alan Jay Lerner, and screenwriter-author Anita Loos. It’s an amazing time capsule of the hotel, at…

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Martin Luther King

Remember 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

Posted on August 28, 2013May 3, 2016 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Reading biographies of Dorothy Parker, you’ll see why she left her estate to Dr. Martin Luther King, a man she never met. By some accounts, Dr. King, when informed he had been named the beneficiary in her will in 1967, had no idea who Dorothy Parker was. However, a careful reading of Dorothy Parker’s life…

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Audio Archive Moves to SoundCloud, Social Networking Now Possible

Posted on August 25, 2013August 25, 2013 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

The great audio file migration is complete! I am pleased to announce that the 30 Dorothy Parker audio files have been transferred to SoundCloud, “the world’s leading social sound platform.” The backstory is that most of the files were digitized in 1999 using RealMedia, a format that’s fallen by the wayside in the past 14…

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BBC 5 Live Radio Interview

Posted on March 4, 2013March 20, 2022 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

k72ndst · Legacy of Dorothy Parker The BBC Radio journalist Joanne Griffith interviewed me about the life and legacy of Dorothy Parker on January 27 for BBC Radio 5 Live. Note that Mrs. Parker helped found the Screen Writers Guild, not the Screen Actors Guild. The address of the Algonquin Hotel is 59 West 44th…

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Cleaning Up the Audio Collection for the DPS

Posted on February 1, 2011August 25, 2013 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

We are going to be cleaning up the audio collection for the Dorothy Parker Society over the next couple of months. Many of the files are RealAudio files from 2000, and are being converted to MP3. We have the biggest online collection of Dorothy Parker reading her work, as well as rare interviews found no…

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Happy Birthday, Mrs. Parker

Posted on August 22, 2008January 27, 2018 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

William Zeffiro, who wrote The Road to Ruin and is an officer in the Dorothy Parker Society, composed this song in 2008 and performed it at the birthday party we held for Dottie in August. Happy Birthday, Mrs. Parker was recently recorded, and is presented here for you to enjoy. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MRS. PARKER Words…

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More Audio Clips

Posted on January 25, 1999January 20, 2020 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

I added the Parker audio clips, ten selections read by Dottie herself. It was not that hard to teach myself how to encode audio using Real Producer. Look for more audio clips soon, but here are some to get you going. As far as I can tell, these are the only Parker audio clips on…

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