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June 30, 2022, is the 105th anniversary of the wedding of Dorothy Rothschild and Edwin Pond Parker II in 1917. On this occasion, Stuart Y. Silverstein, the longtime Dorothy Parker researcher and author of the hit Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, has uncovered a new, rich vein of information about the…
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….
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…
Not a single Sunday newspaper pundit yesterday mentioned the Dorothy Parker Copyright Fight. Maureen Dowd dropped a Parker quote into her column, however, she was writing about the screenwriters strike. The entire media-publishing blogosphere rolled over and played dead on this one, so I will take a crack at a post mortem. This past week…
Great new content! Our first author interview, with Stuart Y. Silverstein, author of Not Much Fun, The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, which presented for the first time more than 120 poems not found in other Parker collections. Silverstein answers questions about Parker’s place in American literature, as well as the Round Table and her…