NPR Radio Broadcast & Parker

Marion Meade's essay in Bookforum, which we mentioned recently, is going on the air. National Public Radio's Weekend Edition is doing a segment on the essay this (4/22/06) weekend. If you live in New York, it is on WNYC-AM from 8-11 a.m. and WNYC-FM from 8-10 a.m. The show is also archived on NPR.org the next day. Put it on your iPod.

We got the tip from Eric Banks at BookForum. Thanks!

Posted by Kevin Fitzpatrick on Friday, April 21, 2006 at 1:10 PM | Permalink | Comments

$4 Million Gets You Dottie's House

Anyone have a spare $4 million around? That is the price the owners of Dorothy and Alan's Bucks County, Pennsylvania, home are asking. Someone sent me the listing today, which I posted here.

It really is an amazing piece of property. I had of course read about the home in Marion Meade's book (she visited the house), but I had no clue it was so gigantic. Dottie and Alan bought it with their Hollywood money. And it is some house: four bedrooms, 12 rooms, including a billiards room. On 20 acres with a pool and detached three-car garage. It sits on a private pond. It also has a full basement (for all your books) and a "media room" to surf the web.

If every Parker fan in the world sends in $20, we can buy the place!

Posted by Kevin Fitzpatrick on Thursday, April 06, 2006 at 3:16 PM | Permalink | Comments

Book Talk with Marion Meade

Just announced: Wednesday, April 5, 6:30pm at the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction (17 East 47th Street). "Marion Meade on Dorothy Parker"

Join us as Marion Meade speaks on the infamous Dorothy Parker. Published March 28 is The Portable Dorothy Parker, edited by and with an introduction by Marion Meade. This is the second revision in sixty years and is a wonderful collection that covers the verse, stories, essays and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors.

Marion Meade is the author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This? She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as two novels about medieval France. Her most recent book is Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties.

The reading concludes with a Q&A session, a book signing, and wine and cheese reception. It is $8 for members, $10 for non-members. Free for members of the Dorothy Parker Society if you RSVP in advance and tell them you are from the DPSNY. Please call 212.755.6710 for reservations.

Posted by Kevin Fitzpatrick on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 5:04 PM | Permalink | Comments