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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…
Marion Meade’s new book Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties is like manna from heaven for aficionados of the Roaring Twenties. Seventeen years ago Meade wrote What Fresh Hell is This? It remains the definitive Dorothy Parker biography; now she expands on the 10 most exciting years of Parker’s life,…
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, comes out May 18 from Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. The first reading is Wednesday, May 19, 6 pm at The Corner…
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…
Great news for all Dorothy Parker fans: author Marion Meade has a new book coming out May 18, 2004 about our favorite person. Meade wrote the definitive and best Parker biography Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This? in 1987. Now she goes back to the well one more time for Bobbed Hair and Bathtub…
The Dorothy Parker Society gathered again to mark the anniversary of Mrs. Parker’s death. About a dozen DPSNY members enjoyed discount cocktails at the Dead Poet, 450 Amsterdam Avenue. As always, the group was diverse and fun to socialize with. As usual, we didn’t have any minutes to read, dues to collect, reports to read,…