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Woodlawn Cemetery is the final resting place of Dorothy Parker and her family. To mark International Poetry Month, the Woodlawn Conservancy will host a book night online via Zoom on Monday, April 15, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ET. The guests are Kevin Fitzpatrick, president of the Dorothy Parker Society, and editor-researcher Stuart Y. Silverstein. Mr. Silverstein…
It is looking to be another big year for Dorothy Parker work entering the public domain. On New Year’s Day will be a bonanza of poems, more than in recent years. More Dorothy Parker poetry and short fiction will enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2023, than ever before in…
More Dorothy Parker poetry and short fiction will enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2022, than ever before in a single year: 47 poems and five short stories. This is a much higher figure than 2021 when 25 poems had their copyrights expire, or 2020 when the number was only…
Dorothy Rothschild as a girl walked her beloved dogs in Central Park and Riverside Park, both parks near her Upper West Side homes. But she also was a longtime writer about dogs as an adult. As a kid she and her father exchanged postcards about the health and doings of the family dogs, Rags and…
In the world of “lost” Dorothy Parker poems, there is no greater sleuth than Stuart Y. Silverstein. His groundbreaking 1996 book Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, uncovered more than 120 pieces that Parker had not collected in her lifetime. In 2020, four more are included to the realm of missing poems….
Due to the strange machinations of U.S. copyright law, on January 1, 2020, more works of art, film, music, poetry, and writing will enter the public domain. This milestone will bring out work published in 1924 that copyrights have been lifted. Dorothy Parker makes the list with a few gems published 96 years ago, including…