ISBN: 978-0976670605, 150 pages; 7.5 x 7.5, 79 color images, 76 B & W images, 5 maps, $19.95
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Of her hometown, Dorothy Parker wrote, “I take New York personally. I am, in fact, somewhat annoyingly tender about it. A silver cord ties me tight to my city.” Readers of A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York will learn why. By exploring more than 100 locations associated with the celebrated wit, poet, and critic, this book provides an in-depth knowledge of how Manhattan influenced Parker and how the writer held sway over her favorite city.

This unique book is a guide to Parker’s glorious speakeasies, her haunts, the places where she wrote, and the apartments where she lived, loved, and even died. As Broadway’s first female drama critic, Parker’s stinging reviews are still enjoyable eight decades later. One chapter is devoted to the theaters she where she reserved an the aisle seat; visit the lobby where she famously remarked of Katharine Hepburn, “She ran the gamut of emotions, from
A to B.”

A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York is packed with more than 150 illustrations, many rare and never published before. Readers can use to the five maps to trace the footsteps of the most celebrated member of the Algonquin Round Table across Manhattan. This book will appeal to both longtime Parker devotees and those just discovering her charms, as well as to fans of New York City. “I supposed that is the thing about New York,” Parker wrote in 1928. “It is always a little more than you had hoped for. Each day, there, is so definitely a new day.”

A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s has been covered in the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, TravelSmart, and Library Journey, which called it “stunning and highly entertaining.” Click here to read the reviews.

Kevin C. Fitzpatrick is the founder of the Dorothy Parker Society and leads walking tours of the Algonquin Round Table homes and haunts in Manhattan. He is a New York City writer and researcher. Marion Meade (foreword) wrote the critically acclaimed biography Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? (Penguin) and Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties (Nan A. Talese). Meade was also the editor of the revised Portable Dorothy Parker (Penguin Classics). Natalie Ascencios, a regular contributor to The New Yorker and Rolling Stone, was commissions to paint the cover.

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Contents

Foreword by Marion Meade

1. Dorothy Parker: A Manhattan Confection
2. An Apprenticeship in Cynicism: A Comfortable, Tumultuous Childhood
3. Drink and Dance and Laugh and Lie: The Vicious Circle and All That Jazz
4. The Aisle Seat: Life as a Theater Critic
5. Defending the Underdog: Dorothy Parker as Political Activist
6. Excuse My Dust: Final Years

Timeline
Notes
For Further Reading
Index

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