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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…
Do you celebrate New Year’s Day or Public Domain Day? For Dorothy Parker fans, why not both? Just as we published last year, turning the calendar pages of U.S. copyright law, on January 1, 2021, more works of art, film, music, poetry, and writing will enter the public domain. This milestone will bring out work…
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…
With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, let’s remember the crossover Ireland-New York poem Dorothy Parker wrote for March 17. This was written 96 years ago when Dorothy was 28 years old and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. This gem, published March 16, 1922, in the old Life, came out when Dorothy…
There have been many Dorothy Parker poetry nights, but perhaps the most unique is coming to New York this month. The Naked Girls Reading series will present You Might As Well Live on September 16 at Under St. Marks in the East Village. The organization, led by producer-host Nasty Canasta, adds Mrs. Parker to a…
The great audio file migration is complete! I am pleased to announce that the 30 Dorothy Parker audio files have been transferred to SoundCloud, “the world’s leading social sound platform.” The backstory is that most of the files were digitized in 1999 using RealMedia, a format that’s fallen by the wayside in the past 14…
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…
No collection of Dorothy Parker books is complete without owning Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, which first came out in 1996. Published by Scribner to much acclaim, it presented for the first time more than 100 poems and bits of verse that Mrs. Parker did not collect in her lifetime. Due…
Writer-Researcher on Parker, her place in American letters, and the Algonquin Round Table We have the good fortune to ask Ten Questions of Stuart Y. Silverstein. His 1996 book, Not Much Fun, The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, presented for the first time more than 120 poems not found in other Parker collections. The book…