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Restoring a Dorothy Parker Portrait

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

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…

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Brooklyn Book Festival Booth for 1920s Fans

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

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…

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Toast upcoming Dorothy Parker cocktail book with drinks at the Algonquin Hotel on May 31

Posted on May 14, 2013May 3, 2016 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

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….

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Dorothy Parker Named to New York State Writers Hall of Fame

Posted on January 26, 2011January 26, 2011 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

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…

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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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New York Library Association Overlooks Dorothy Parker

Posted on February 5, 2010April 15, 2010 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

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…

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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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4th Annual Parker Day A Big Success

Posted on August 23, 2009June 17, 2016 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Long Branch, NJ – “Long Branch, a town that may not know who Bob Dylan is, but certainly knows who Dorothy Parker was,” said Kevin Fitzpatrick, founder and president of the National Dorothy Parker Society and co-editor of The Lost Algonquin Round Table, in reference to the recent failure to recognize the music legend by…

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4th Annual Dorothy Parker Day is Aug. 16

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXs8dlMXg6c]The Dorothy Parker Day Committee in Long Branch, New Jersey, Mrs. Parker’s birthplace, has put out this press release about activities on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009. If you are traveling from Penn Station, take the train to Long Branch, on the New Jersey Coast Line. A $5 cab will get you to the library and…

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Q&A About The Lost Algonquin Round Table

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

The new collection, The Lost Algonquin Round Table, edited by Nat Benchley and Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, is out now. If you are interested in getting a copy, click here to order online. You can also go to any retail bookstore and ask them to order it for you. In New York, it is available at…

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