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Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
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Paus' Hate Songs is based on the poem "Women: A Hate Song" published by Parker in Vanity Fair in 1916 [5] and subsequent poems that have been described as "a photo-book of New York with the female caricatures that Parker abhorred or despised, notably idle bourgeois ladies, who were the object of patriarchal worship as angelic domestic creatures ...
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The group that would become the Round Table began meeting in June 1919 as the result of a practical joke carried out by theatrical press agent John Peter Toohey.Toohey, annoyed at The New York Times drama critic Alexander Woollcott for refusing to plug one of Toohey's clients (Eugene O'Neill) in his column, organized a luncheon supposedly to welcome Woollcott back from World War I, where he ...
A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York (ISBN 0-9766706-0-7) from Roaring Forties Press Dorothy Parker Complete Broadway, 1918-1923 ( ISBN 978-1-4917-2267-1 ) from Donald Books The Lost Algonquin Round Table: Humor, Fiction, Journalism, Criticism and Poetry From America’s Most Famous Literary Circle ( ISBN 978-1-4401-5152-1 ) from Donald Books
Ken Jennings offered an apology to a "Jeopardy!" contestant this week for a "problematic" clue that has been interpreted by some as sexist.However, others took issue with the host's handling of ...
A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick (foreword) (2005) The Portable Dorothy Parker (editor, foreword) (2006) The Ladies of the Corridor by Dorothy Parker and Arnaud D’Usseau (editor, foreword) (2008) Complete Poems by Dorothy Parker (foreword) (2010) Alpine Giggle Week by Dorothy Parker (editor, foreword) (2014)