Singer-Songwriter Neko Case, who’s latest album (or CD, or download) is called Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, just wrote an essay for Poetry magazine. In it, she says, “Dorothy Parker makes me manic! I can’t even make it through the first three lines of “The Godmother” without bursting into tears.” It is a nice essay…
Tag: Parker References
Dottie Debut on Youtube
With Youtube taking off and being part of the pop culture, it was only a matter of time before Dorothy Parker was part of it. But instead of just uploading (and not legally) clips of Jennifer Jason Leigh from Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, some rising filmmaker’s have taken their own creative look at…
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…
Cook This Up!
My favorite part about running a Dorothy Parker web site? Connecting with people with some tangible link to Mrs. Parker. Some have been her great-nieces, various writers, assorted researchers, or such as today’s dispatch, from Ms. Lorraine Gibson. Her grandfather, the late Warren Dixon, was a chef to the stars during the Depression. Lorraine sent…
Dutch Treat
Dorothy Parker has fans all over the world, as evidenced by the traffic to the site from more than 40 countries. We recently were named a site of the week (I think) by a newspaper in the Netherlands called Leeuwarder-Courant. I can’t be positive because this isn’t in English. But I think this is Dutch….
Parker on Radio
Do you remember that catchy tune from 1995, “I Kissed A Girl” recorded by Jill Sobule? It was kind of a modest hit, and propelled by its bisexual elements. I actually met her in 1994 or ’95 when I was a producer at FX, the FOX cable station (when it used to have a music…