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We are really pleased to announce the New York Public Library Mid-Manhattan Branch is going to be celebrating the Algonquin Round Table in April during its popular Story Time for Grown-Ups series. The location is 455 Fifth Avenue, corner of 40th Street. Love a good story? Sit back and relax as we read you a…
We got this message from DPS member Shela Xoregos about 1920s-1930s Noel Coward one acts that are being performed around the city in April and May. Dorothy Parker fans would probably be interested in New York. The dates (* = free): April 25 at 6:00 PM Yorkville Library*, 222 East 79 Street (2/3 Avenues) Manhattan…
The Dorothy Parker Society is a major fan of the New York Public Library. We have to say that no other library system in the world can touch it. We have two favorite branches: The Mid-Manhattan Branch, which houses the largest circulating collections of the entire NYPL, and the 1902 Yorkville Branch, which is the…
I’ve spoken at a lot of libraries, but never at the New York Public Library. Please join me for a special event, my talk “A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York” as part of the NYPL at Nite series. The details: New York Public Library Mid-Manhattan Library 40th Street and Fifth Avenue 6th Floor Thursday,…
David Leopold, archivist of the Al Hirschfeld Foundation, says that if the great illustrator didn’t draw your caricature in the 20th Century, you pretty much didn’t matter. Dorothy Parker had her likeness dipped in Hirschfeld ink several times, illustrations that appear today on the covers to Complete Stories and Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems…