Shop Adds Shirts & Music Downloads

We've resisted adding any "products" to the site for a long time. But people keep asking about how they can wear their devotion on their sleeve (or quarter-sleeve). We have a very simple design, which is just Mrs. Parker's signature. There are womens, mens and doggie shirts here. The prices are reasonable (the shirt at right is $21.50, just about GAP price). Also included are coffee mugs and tote bags. We're using Cafe Press, which seems to be the most reputable of all the online screen-printers we could find. A percentage of all sales will be given to the NAACP, which controls Mrs. Parker's estate. Click here and start your holiday shopping early!

We also joined Apple's iTunes program. We make a few crummy pennies whenever you download music or audio books from their site. The first one we're trying is Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker. It has Truman Capote, Ian Frazier, Susan Orlean, and more. Download it here:




The second one we offer is Niki Lee, who is from Baltimore and performed her Parker show last year at Parkerfest. Her album is Here Lies Dorothy Parker and I'm really happy her songs are on iTunes:





If this works, lets us know...

Posted by Kevin Fitzpatrick on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 at 2:09 PM | Permalink

Old Bay State Show Dusts Off Dottie

Robert Benchley was Dorothy Parker's best friend, we all know that. And the Robert Benchley Society is the best friend of the DSPNY. David Trumbull, ringleader of the RBS, tipped us off to a production in North Truro, Mass. Girls Who Wear Glassses: The Wicked Wit and Wisdom of Dorothy Parker information here; the next performance is September 2.

Posted by Kevin Fitzpatrick on Monday, August 09, 2004 at 11:37 AM | Permalink

Aug. 22 Walking Tour is Dottie B-Day

Trace the footsteps of Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Harpo Marx and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table on a walking tour that visits where the "Vicious Circle" lived, drank, played and worked. The Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour is Sunday, Aug. 22, 2004, 12-2 pm. The date is also Mrs. Parker's birthday. All the info is here.

Posted by Kevin Fitzpatrick on Sunday, August 08, 2004 at 1:36 AM | Permalink

Parkerfest Tickets On Sale Now

Parkerfest 2004 is Oct. 1-3. Tickets are now on sale. For all info click here. To see what happened last year, click here. Don't miss these fun events! This is the same weekend as The New Yorker Festival AND New York is Book Country!

Posted by Kevin Fitzpatrick on Tuesday, August 03, 2004 at 2:04 PM | Permalink

Court Took a Look, Clears Way for Parker Book

A federal appeals court has vacated an injunction that took Dorothy Parker Complete Poems off the shelves for alleged copyright violations, ruling that the judge who barred sales of the book had abused his discretion.

A unanimous panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a preliminary injunction against a creative work is an "extraordinary remedy."

"In the copyright realm, it has been said that an injunction should be granted if denial would amount to a forced license to use the creative work of another," Judge Dennis Jacobs wrote in Silverstein v. Penguin Putnam Inc., 03-7363.

Read the decision here; or go to the whole story about this.

Posted by Kevin Fitzpatrick on Monday, August 02, 2004 at 5:37 PM | Permalink