If you have not made up your mind if you want to attend our next big Dorothy Parker Society party, just read who will be attending. We have 4 fantastic actors who will be at the splashy party on May 14 to celebrate The Ladies of the Corridor coming back to bookstores. The party is…
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New Parker Book Out April 29, Launch Party May 14
One of Dorothy Parker’s most overlooked pieces of writing is coming back to print on April 29. The Ladies of the Corridor is a 1953 Broadway drama she co-wrote with Arnaud d’Usseau, a Hollywood and Broadway veteran. Today we launched new section of the web site with information about the book and play:* An overview…
Feb. 26th Bookshop Reading & Signing
The Mysterious Bookshop is the place to be on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 6:30 for a reading and party to celebrate the publication of The Vicious Circle (Pegasus Books), a collection of crime and mystery stories written by members of the Algonquin Round Table and their friends. The editor of the book is Otto Penzler,…
New Parker Book Coming in 2008
In exclusive Dorothy Parker Society news, Penguin Classics will be bringing out a new Parker book in May 2008. It is The Ladies of the Corridor, a play she wrote in 1953 in collaboration with Arnaud D’Usseau. The book has not been available in more than 50 years, and Penguin Classics is bringing it out…
Tribute to Mrs. Parker’s Radical Life
Four decades after she passed away, Dorothy Parker’s life was celebrated in a unique evening at a radical bookshop in Chelsea. More than fifty turned out for the event and were treated to readings of Mrs. Parker’s work by Broadway stars Tonya Pinkins and Xanthe Elbrick. Two special guests also spoke: Hilda Rodgers, an executive…
Random House Debuts Widget
Check out this new widget that Random House has unveiled. It allows you to browse inside books and see sample pages and chapters. Users can blow them up to large size for easy using. There also is a very cool tool that lets Web site users put the code directly onto their blogs. I tried…