Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
Tuesday night I attended the monthly meeting of Community Board 7, which covers the Upper West Side. The reason I was there was to speak to oppose the demolition of Dorothy Parker’s childhood home at 214 West 72nd Street. As a previous post explained, the building was damaged by construction of a giant building on…
The Dorothy Parker copyright fight was the subject of a Saturday article in the London Telegraph. The columnist says of Penguin’s editors, “we can wonder if they’re proud that their edition included evidence of little more scholarship than it takes to use a photocopier” and “There’s no law against slapdash publishing.” He writes that although…
Not a single Sunday newspaper pundit yesterday mentioned the Dorothy Parker Copyright Fight. Maureen Dowd dropped a Parker quote into her column, however, she was writing about the screenwriters strike. The entire media-publishing blogosphere rolled over and played dead on this one, so I will take a crack at a post mortem. This past week…
The seven years of ongoing legal machinations of the Dorothy Parker Copyright Case, Stuart Y. Silverstein vs. Penguin Putnam, Inc., reached yesterday what could be the final phase. United States District Court Judge John F. Keenan issued on Nov. 7, 2007, a Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law (complete PDF here), and in it…
The Dorothy Parker Copyright Trial ended today. It lasted seven days; the final day was devoted to concluding the video deposition of Randall Calhoun. The monotonous testimony considered the line of questions that took up most of yesterday afternoon, defining what “poems” and “poetry” mean to scholars. Calhoun, an assistant professor of English from Ball…
The Dorothy Parker Copyright Trial rolled into its second week today, but the end is in sight. Judge John F. Keenan today predicted it would wrap up tomorrow or Thursday. The final live witness was called today, Penguin Books president and publisher Kathryn Court. The courtroom also got its first look, via video monitor, at…