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,…
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Marion Meade Upcoming Readings
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…
New Parker book for 2004
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…
Rumor Mill
Someone said that Angelina Jolie quotes “Resume” in the new movie Girl, Interrupted . Has anyone seen this Winona Ryder vehicle, and care to comment? Annie Hall, Meet Marion Marion Meade will always hold a special place in all our hearts for her definitive biography 10 years ago of Dorothy Parker, What Fresh Hell Is…