Although Harold Ross’ home may soon find a new loving owner, it seems that a residence belonging to his friend and colleague Dorothy Parker will meet a more tragic fate. An Upper West Side home, located at 214 West 72 Street, where the author and literary critic lived as a child, may soon be demolished, DNAinfo reports. The home suffered heavy damage during the construction of The Corner, a massive highrise recently erected next door. Read More
Dorothy Parker wasn’t exactly blessed with mothering instincts, but she did understand this fundamental truth: “The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant,” she once said, “and let the air out of the tires.” So it’s apt that this Mother’s Day, Kevin Fitzpatrick, founder and president of the Dorothy Read More
In Paris, “Bar Americain” means a place that serves liquor as well as wine and beer. So the first thing that catches your eye when you walk into celebrity chef Bobby Flay’s new restaurant is the enormous zinc bar, smack in the center of the 200-seat dining room. The cocktails here, developed by partner Laurence Read More
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Cars and gals: Volvo , which was the car of choice for socially conscious New Yorkers before they all said “screw it” and put down for the S.U.V. , hosts awards today for unsung heroes -people nominated by their local communities for making a difference, with the winner getting $50,000 donated Read More
When it was announced last month that the Algonquin Hotel was once more changing hands-the third time in 15 years-Geoffrey Mills, then the hotel’s general manager, said he’d received more than 20 e-mails from concerned guests. “It’s an emotional as well as historic landmark, which means that it’s difficult for people to accept anything different,”Mr. Read More
I had wanted a bonfire on the Amagansett beach for the millennium. At midnight, I had wanted to put on my down jacket and, under the stars, standing by the light of a blazing flame, let the universe know that I and mine were still to be counted among the grains of sand, among the Read More
I was 18,506 this morning. To be more precise, the paperback
edition of my recent novel Two Guys From
Verona was ranked at that number on Amazon.com, the on-line bookseller.
Since Amazon currently claims to have 4.7 million titles in stock, I felt
delighted, braced, a little puffed up, even, to be way up Read More
The Technique of the Love Affair , by A Gentlewoman. Pantheon, 222 pages, $19.95.
Satyricon USA , by Eurydice. Scribner, 256 pages, $22.
Dorothy Parker, in her New Yorker review of The Technique of the Love Affair , a 1928 how-to manual by “A Gentlewoman,” was typically wicked and plaintive: “You know how you Read More
