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I recently acquired a rare Dorothy Parker photo I had never seen in more than 20 years of collecting. I was familiar with the image, because a similar one is on a dust jacket (The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker, Modern Library) and it appears it was taken moments apart. This image is…
The Dorothy Parker Society will have a booth at the annual Brooklyn Book Festival and will be having a day of book signings, raffles, and giveaways. Come to Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza, 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn NY 11201, on Sunday, Sept. 22, from 10 AM to 6 PM. Our booth is #158. The Brooklyn…
The iconic Manhattan writer and wit Dorothy Parker will be toasted with the cocktails she adored so much at a special book announcement celebration at the Blue Bar at the legendary Algonquin Hotel on Friday, May 31, 2013, from 5 to 7 p.m., for UNDER THE TABLE: A DOROTHY PARKER COCKTAIL GUIDE, by Kevin C….
The Dorothy Parker Society learned today that Mrs. Parker has been named to the New York State Writers Hall of Fame, and will be inducted in a ceremony on April 1 in Albany at the Empire State Book Festival. The DPS kind of made a stink last year when Mrs. Parker was passed over in…
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…
Dorothy Parker has been passed over for inclusion in the inaugural group of a dozen authors named to the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. The list of writers whose “writings have made a lasting contribution to literature” was chosen by the New York Library Association and they will be feted at a gala…