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What is the best magazine interview–ever–that Dorothy Parker sat down for? This one. Journalist Gloria Steinem was 30 and Parker was 71 when they met in the winter of 1964-65 for a long chat that ended up as a 2,300 word article in the New York edition of The Ladies Home Journal. At the time…
In the summer of 1965 the war in Vietnam was escalating, astronaut Ed White became the first American to conduct a spacewalk, the World’s Fair was underway in Queens, and Martin Luther King, Jr. was leading protests from Selma to Chicago. On a July day the assistant city editor from the New York World-Telegram and…
With the publication of The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide (Lyons Press) on Jan. 6, I’m publishing more of my research files online. This interview with Dorothy Parker took place months before her marriage to Alan Campbell, and before she made her second attempt at Hollywood screenwriting in late 1934. This story…
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…
The BBC Radio journalist Joanne Griffith interviewed me about the life and legacy of Dorothy Parker in January. The interview is now available to listen to here (it is #8 on the list). Note that Mrs. Parker helped found the Screen Writers Guild, not the Screen Actors Guild. The address of the Algonquin Hotel is…
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…
No collection of Dorothy Parker books is complete without owning Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, which first came out in 1996. Published by Scribner to much acclaim, it presented for the first time more than 100 poems and bits of verse that Mrs. Parker did not collect in her lifetime. Due…
The new collection, The Lost Algonquin Round Table, edited by Nat Benchley and Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, is out now. If you are interested in getting a copy, click here to order online. You can also go to any retail bookstore and ask them to order it for you. In New York, it is available at…
There is a new interview I have conducted with author Marion Meade for Small Spiral Notebook, edited by Felicia C. Sullivan. On Writing Biographies: Kevin Fitzpatrick interviews Marion Meade about Buster, Woody, Zelda, and Mrs. Parker Interview by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, December 2006 New York author Marion Meade has written a dozen books, but it…
Great new content! Our first author interview, with Stuart Y. Silverstein, author of Not Much Fun, The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, which presented for the first time more than 120 poems not found in other Parker collections. Silverstein answers questions about Parker’s place in American literature, as well as the Round Table and her…