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Tag: Marion Meade

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Is This The Last Photo Taken of Dorothy Parker?

Posted on May 11, 2020May 11, 2020 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Photos of Dorothy Parker are not plentiful. There are perhaps 50 or so out in the public realm, in total. That seems odd in today’s Instagram-driven culture. But there are really not that many. So when a new one popped up on the New York Public Library Digital Archive in 2014, it was a revelation….

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The Portable Dorothy Parker (cover by Seth), 2006, Penguin Classics.

Book Club Titles From Seattle Chapter

Posted on April 13, 2015April 12, 2016 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Kristin Clark, president of the Seattle Chapter of the Dorothy Parker Society, has been running a book club since 2013. The group meets the first Sunday of the month at the landmark Hotel Sorrento. She sent us her list of books the group has read, or will be reading. These are worth reading for any…

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Electronically, Parker’s Ills are Spilled Again

Posted on May 27, 2014May 28, 2014 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

In a month when Michael Jackson and Led Zeppelin both put out new albums, Dorothy Parker joins their company with new material from her longtime publisher. While Jackson’s heirs performed a séance to bring out new songs and Jimmy Page himself remastered Whole Lotta Love, Penguin Classics turned to their own house archivist on all…

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Dorothy Parker Complete Poems Released Again

Posted on April 6, 2010March 21, 2016 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

The Portable Dorothy Parker was the only book of Mrs. Parker’s work in print when she died in 1967. Today readers can practically put together an entire bookshelf of work by and about Mrs. Parker. To add to this Parker Pantheon is a new book from Penguin Classics that collects almost all of her poems—both…

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Feb. 15 Talk Upper East Side

Posted on February 1, 2010May 28, 2014 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Announcing a night to salute Dorothy Parker in her old neighborhood, the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Come out on Monday, February 15, 7pm, to Barnes & Noble, 150 E. 86th Street, for the “Writers on Writers” series. The “Dorothy Parker Post-Valentine Recovery Night” will feature brief talks about Parker by Marion Meade (editor of…

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New Parker Book Out April 29, Launch Party May 14

Posted on April 25, 2008May 28, 2014 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

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…

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Tribute to Mrs. Parker’s Radical Life

Posted on June 21, 2007January 27, 2018 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

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…

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New Interview With Marion Meade

Posted on December 7, 2006August 9, 2019 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

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…

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Baltimore Sun Story on Dorothy Memorial

Posted on May 31, 2006May 3, 2016 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

This front-page story was in the Baltimore Sun on Sunday, May 28. Have a read at this breaking news story! Fans hope writer’s ashes won’t be left in the dust The NAACP is pondering a move to D.C., and some wonder what will happen to Dorothy Parker’s remains By Rob Hiaasensun reporter May 28, 2006…

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Book Talk with Marion Meade

Posted on April 3, 2006August 9, 2019 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Just announced: Wednesday, April 5, 6:30pm at the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction (17 East 47th Street). “Marion Meade on Dorothy Parker” Join us as Marion Meade speaks on the infamous Dorothy Parker. Published March 28 is The Portable Dorothy Parker, edited by and with an introduction by Marion Meade. This is the second revision…

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