In a curious episode of The New Yorker podcast, a Dorothy Parker short story deemed so poor it was dropped from the latest edition of The Portable Dorothy Parker was chosen. “I Live On Your Visits” is read on the podcast by Pulitzer Prize winning author Andrew Sean Greer. He says that a friend gave…
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Dorothy Parker-Dawn Powell Walking Tour June 26
Celebrate two of New York’s greatest fiction writers on a walking tour to trace their footsteps in the neighborhoods they made famous: Dorothy Parker and Dawn Powell. See their homes and haunts on a walk that begins at the landmark Algonquin Hotel and ends in Greenwich Village. The tour starts at Noon on Sunday, June…
Brooklyn and the Algonquin Round Table
I wanted to write about Brooklyn and the Algonquin Round Table today, because the Brooklyn Book Festival is on Sunday. I’ll be there talking about my new book at Booth 158 with Jamie Brenner. While Dorothy Parker never had a love nest in Brooklyn, or tried to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, there are five…
Algonquin Round Table Walking Tours Sept. 28, Oct. 26
There will be two Algonquin Round Table Walking Tours, on Saturday, Sept. 28, and Saturday, Oct. 26. The Algonquin Round Table comes alive in the only New York walking tour devoted to the famed literary group. The 2-hour walk celebrates Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Harpo Marx, Edna Ferber, Franklin P. Adams, Heywood…
Vicious Circle Walking Tour Sept. 29
The Algonquin Round Table comes alive in the only New York walking tour devoted to the famed literary group. The 2-hour walk celebrates Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Harpo Marx, Edna Ferber, Franklin P. Adams, Heywood Broun, Harold Ross, Robert Sherwood, Marc Connelly and the rest of the Vicious Circle. The Algonquin Round…
Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour May 26
The first 2012 Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour will take place just after the hotel completes a multi-million dollar renovation and refurbishment. Saturday, May 26, Noon-2 p.m. Location: Algonquin Hotel, 59 W. 44th St (bet 5th and 6th Avenues). Cost: $20 per person. Walk in the footsteps of the Vicious Circle in the only walking…
Cartoonist Party at Algonquin on April 30
Attention fans of cartoons: The Dorothy Parker Society is hosting an event at the Algonquin Hotel that will draw seven notable cartoonists to celebrate the publication of Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love…in 200 Cartoons. Liza Donnelly, who has been a cartoonist at The New Yorker since 1982, edits the…
Old New Yorker Office Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU84iE84rzQ I love this clip so much. See what has become of the former office of William Shawn of The New Yorker. I do not know if this was also Harold Ross’ office. This is the former office on 44th Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, not too far from the Algonquin Hotel.