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The Algonquin Round Table New York

Author : Kevin C. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493016733
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Algonquin Round Table New York written by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-02-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "That is the thing about New York," wrote Dorothy Parker in 1928. "It is always a little more than you had hoped for. Each day, there, is so definitely a new day." Now you can journey back there, in time, to a grand city teeming with hidden bars, luxurious movie palaces, and dazzling skyscrapers. In these places, Dorothy Parker and her cohorts in the Vicious Circle at the infamous Algonquin Round Table sharpened their wit, polished their writing, and captured the energy and elegance of the time. Robert Benchley, Parker’s best friend, became the first managing editor of Vanity Fair before Irving Berlin spotted him onstage in a Vicious Circle revue and helped launch his acting career. Edna Ferber, an occasional member of the group, wrote the Pulitzer-winning bestseller So Big as well as Show Boat and Cimarron. Jane Grant pressed her first husband, Harold Ross, into starting The New Yorker. Neysa McMein, reputedly “rode elephants in circus parades and dashed from her studio to follow passing fire engines.” Dorothy Parker wrote for Vanity Fair and Vogue before ascending the throne as queen of the Round Table, earning everlasting fame (but rather less fortune) for her award-winning short stories and unforgettable poems. Alexander Woollcott, the centerpiece of the group, worked as drama critic for the Times and the World, wrote profiles of his friends for The New Yorker, and lives on today as Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner. Explore their favorite salons and saloons, their homes and offices (most still standing), while learning about their colorful careers and private lives. Packed with archival photos, drawings, and other images--including never-before-published material--this illustrated historical guide includes current information on all locations. Use it to retrace the footsteps of the Algonquin Round Table, and you’ll discover that the golden age of Gotham still surrounds us.

The Vicious Circle

Author : Margaret Case Harriman
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789122465
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book The Vicious Circle written by Margaret Case Harriman and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1919, the Algonquin Hotel became the site of the daily meetings of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of journalists, authors, publicists and actors who gathered to exchange bon mots over lunch in the main dining room. The group met almost daily for the better part of ten years. Some of the core members of the “Vicious Circle” included Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Jane Grant, Ruth Hale, George S. Kaufman, Harpo Marx, Neysa McMein, Dorothy Parker, Harold Ross, Robert E. Sherwood and Alexander Woollcott. George S. Kaufman, Heywood Broun, and Edna Ferber, who influenced writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, were also a part of the August assembly, and as founders of The New Yorker magazine, all hotel guests receive free copies to this day. Frank Case, owner of the Algonquin Hotel from 1907 until his death in 1946, ensured a daily luncheon for the talented group of young writers by treating them to free celery and popovers, and they were provided with their own table and waiter. All members were affiliated with the Algonquin Round Table, although they referred to themselves as the Vicious Circle. In this memoir, first published in 1951, Frank Case’s daughter Margaret Case Harriman recounts the diverting history of what was an innocent lunch group at her father’s hotel and illustrates how it grew to become an important factor in literature, the theatre, and American wit and humor... “A lively, chatty, entertaining work, touched with nostalgia.”—Chicago Sunday Tribune “Mrs. Harriman brings vividly to mind and to memory some of the most vivid people who ever sat around a table...She writes with enthusiasm and charm.”—New York Herald Tribune Book Review “Phenomenal...Congrats, as Connolly says, from the Bunch.”—Franklin P. Adams “A lovingly observed and brilliantly written chronicle of an era that didn’t know it was one.”—Deems Taylo

Wit's End

Author : James R. Gaines
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wit's End written by James R. Gaines and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1977 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Murder Your Darlings

Author : J.J. Murphy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101476796
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Murder Your Darlings written by J.J. Murphy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One morning legendary wit Dorothy Parker discovers someone under Manhattan's famed Algonquin Round Table. A little early for a passed out drunk, isn't it? But he's not dead drunk, just dead. When a charming writer from Mississippi named Billy Faulkner becomes a suspect in the murder, Dorothy decides to dabble in a little detective work, enlisting her literary cohorts. It's up to the Algonquins to outwit the true culprit-preferably before cocktail hour-and before the clever killer turns the tables on them.

A Friendly Game of Murder

Author : J.J. Murphy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101607416
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Friendly Game of Murder written by J.J. Murphy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should Dorothy Parker’s friends be the only ones making “enviable names” in “science, art, and parlor games”? Dorothy can play with the best of them—as she sets out to prove at a New Year’s Eve party at the Algonquin Hotel. Since the swanky soiree is happening in the penthouse suite of swashbuckling star Douglas Fairbanks, some derring-do is called for. How about a little game of “Murder”? Each partygoer draws a card to be detective, murderer, or victim. But young Broadway starlet Bibi Bibelot trumps them all when her dead body is found in the bathtub. No one knows who the killer is, but one thing is for sure—they won’t be making gin in that bathtub. When more partiers are put in peril, it becomes clear the game is indeed on, and it’s up to Dorothy, surprise guest Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the members of the Round Table to stay alive—and relatively sober—long enough to find the killer…

Under the Table

Author : Kevin C. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149300204X
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Under the Table written by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I love a martini— But two at the most. Three, I’m under the table; Four, I’m under the host." Raise a glass to Dorothy Parker’s wit and wisdom. Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, founder and president of the Dorothy Parker Society, gives us an intoxicating new look at the doyenne of the ripping riposte through the lens she most preferred: the bottom of a glass. A bar book for Parker enthusiasts and literary tipplers alike, Under the Table offers a unique take on Mrs. Parker, the Algonquin Round Table, and the Jazz Age by celebrating the cocktails that she, her bitter friends, and sweetest enemies enjoyed. Each entry of this delicious compendium offers a fascinating and lively history of a period cocktail, a complete recipe, and the characters associated with it. The book also features a special selection of twenty first–century speakeasy-style recipes from the country’s top mixologists. Topping it off are excerpts from Parker’s poems, stories, and other writings that will allow you to enjoy her world from the speakeasies of New York City to the watering holes of Hollywood.

You Might as Well Die

Author : John Joseph Murphy
Publisher : Algonquin Round Table Mysterie
ISBN 13 : 9781611734324
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book You Might as Well Die written by John Joseph Murphy and published by Algonquin Round Table Mysterie. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One must never pick up a stray piece of paper at the Algonquin Round Table--it might be the check. But when second-rate illustrator Ernie MacGuffin slips Dorothy Parker an envelope, only later does she discover it's a suicide note: MacGuffin has leapt to his death from the Brooklyn Bridge! Days later, his works have tripled in value, but something smells fishy to Dorothy. Accompanied by magician and skeptic Harry Houdini, she goes to a sance held by MacGuffin's mistress where Ernie's ghostly voice seems eerily real. But that can't be, can it? In J. J. Murphy's You Might As Well Die, wisecracks and witicisms abound as Dorothy and her pals pursue the mystery -- and money to pay their overflowing tab -- through the streets of 1920s Manhattan.

The Lost Algonquin Round Table

Author : Nat Benchley
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440151539
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Algonquin Round Table written by Nat Benchley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-07-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legendary Writers of the "Vicious Circle" Collected Together For the First Time "The Algonquin was a refuge for the brightest authors, editors, critics, columnists, artists, financiers, composers, directors, producers and actors of the times. The dining-room corner was a hot bed of raconteurs and conversationalists." -Harpo Marx In Jazz Age New York City, no literary lights burned more brightly than those of the legendary Algonquin Round Table. Now between covers for the first time is a collection of writing by 16 members of the group, an all-star gathering that took 90 years to come together. Many of these pieces have never been published before; plucked from private family collections and "lost" pieces from obscure periodicals. ? Humor pieces by Robert Benchley, Franklin P. Adams, Heywood Broun, Frank Sullivan and Donald Ogden Stewart. ? Criticism from Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman and Robert E. Sherwood. ? Short fiction by Laurence Stallings and Pulitzer Prize-winners Edna Ferber and Margaret Leech. ? Journalism from Alexander Woollcott, Ruth Hale and Deems Taylor. ? Poetry by Adams, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker and John V. A. Weaver. With a foreword by Nat Benchley.

The Years with Ross

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063075784
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Years with Ross written by James Thurber and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazine’s unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross “Extremely entertaining. . . . life at The New Yorker emerges as a lovely sort of pageant of lunacy, of practical jokes, of feuds and foibles. It is an affectionate picture of scamps playing their games around a man who, for all his brusqueness, loved them, took care of them, pampered and scolded them like an irascible mother hen.” —New York Times With a foreword by Adam Gopnik and illustrations by James Thurber At the helm of America’s most influential literary magazine from 1925 to 1951, Harold Ross introduced the country to a host of exciting talent, including Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Ogden Nash, Peter Arno, Charles Addams, and Dorothy Parker. But no one could have written about this irascible, eccentric genius more affectionately or more critically than James Thurber, whose portrait of Ross captures not only a complex literary giant but a historic friendship and a glorious era as well. "If you get Ross down on paper," warned Wolcott Gibbs to Thurber," nobody will ever believe it." But readers of this unforgettable memoir will find that they do. Offering a peek into the lives of two American literary giants and the New York literary scene at its heyday, The Years with Ross is a true classic, and a testament to the enduring influence of their genius.

The Algonquin Wits

Author : Robert E. Drennan
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806509471
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Algonquin Wits written by Robert E. Drennan and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wit at the poker table tended to be less sophisticated than the luncheon banter - one can't consider the possibilities of a three card flush and simultaneously create nifties - but it was at the poker table that the Round Tablers revealed, in their firehouse funnies, their substantially small town origins. Every one of them came from the hinterlands exept my father.

A Journey Into Dorothy Parker's New York

Author : Kevin C. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458785440
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book A Journey Into Dorothy Parker's New York written by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the reader through the New York that inspired, and was in turn inspired by, the formidable Mrs. Parker, this guide uses rarely seen archival photographs from her life to illustrate Dorothy Parker's development as a writer, a formidable wit, and a public persona. Her favorite bars and salons as well as her homes and offices, most of which ...

Dorothy Parker

Author : Marion Meade
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101462191
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Dorothy Parker written by Marion Meade and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1989-03-03 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table with the likes of Robert Benchley, George Kaufman, and Harold Ross, and in Hollywood with S. J. Perelman, William Faulkner, and Lillian Hellman. At the dazzling center of it all, Meade gives us the flamboyant, self-destructive, and brilliant Dorothy Parker. This edition features a new afterword by Marion Meade.

The Royal Family

Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573614941
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book The Royal Family written by Edna Ferber and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1977 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918-1923

Author : Dorothy Parker & Kevin C. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491722657
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918-1923 written by Dorothy Parker & Kevin C. Fitzpatrick and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection covers the six years Mrs. Parker wrote a monthly theatre column, first for Vanity Fair, from 1918 to 1920, and then on Ainslee's, from 1920 to 1923"--Page xv.

Anything Goes

Author : Brian Gallagher
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Anything Goes written by Brian Gallagher and published by Crown. This book was released on 1987 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Neysa McMein epitomized the Jazz Age flapper: beautiful, rich, and socially prominent. However, unlike many women of the Twenties, she also earned her own living, working successfully as an illustrator. Noted for her parties, social life, and unconventional marriage (she and her husband enjoyed what we today would call an open marriage), Neysa's life was never dull. She entertained all the notables of the time, including Noel Coward, Harpo Marx, Helen Hayes, George Gershwin, as well as the members of the Algonquin Round Table. In this carefully researched biography, Gallagher provides an amusing and informative portrait of Neysa and her crowd, offering considerable insight into their lives and loves. Nancy R. Ives, Language Skills Ctr., State Univ. of New York at Geneseo. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc."--Taken from amazon.com.

Dorothy Parker Drank Here

Author : Ellen Meister
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 0425278093
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Dorothy Parker Drank Here written by Ellen Meister and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The acid-tongued Dorothy Parker is back and once again haunting the halls of the Algonquin with her piercing wit and unexpectedly tender wisdom"--

Laughter's Gentle Soul

Author : Billy Altman
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393333350
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Laughter's Gentle Soul written by Billy Altman and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sympathetic and wittily written biography, Altman explores the man behind the mirth as he chronicles Robert Benchley's journey, from the glittering lights of Broadway and wit of the Algonquin Round Table to the glamorously decadent Hollywood of the 1930s and 1940s. 25 photos.