On This Date October 19, 1942: The FBI file on Donald Ogden Stewart is more than 1,000 pages. I conducted a Freedom of Information request several years ago to get it all. The government kept tabs on him for 30 … Read the rest
Harpo Marx Humor
On This Date 1955: Harpo Marx in Leonard Lyons syndicated column 29 Aug 1955.… Read the rest
Crazy for Games, Sports, and Puzzles
Sports and leisure were important to the Round Table. They loved professional sports—with baseball and boxing being the chief attractions. F.P.A. was an amateur tennis star. Their leisure time was taken up with parlor games, mind-benders, word play, and gambling. … Read the rest
Video Interview WRNN
Video interview on WRNN TV in New York. Andrew Whiteman interviews Kevin C. Fitzpatrick on the history of the Vicious Circle. Filmed at the Algonquin Hotel. … Read the rest
Pulitzer Landmarks Tied to the Algonquin Round Table
This guest blog was written for Literary Manhattan.
I love literary landmarks. I seek them out whenever I possibly can. I’m the kind of person who can’t pass a plaque or historical marker and not stop for a look, … Read the rest
6 Women You Didn’t Know Were Members of the Algonquin Round Table
This article was written for the Huffington Post.
Dorothy Parker and Edna Ferber were the only women sitting at the Algonquin Round Table, correct? That’s what I thought before I started researching my new book The Algonquin Round Table New … Read the rest
Book Launch Party at the Algonquin
The Algonquin Round Table New York (Globe Pequot Press) was published today. I hope you can find a copy in your local bookstore. Here you can enter your ZIP code and it will tell you the closest bookstore to shop … Read the rest
The Vermont Alexander Woollcott Painting
Now that my book is out, I am looking at what went right and what went wrong with The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide. Today I was in a file of letters, and I came across … Read the rest
Heywood Broun on Actors and Vaudeville
On this day in 1938 Heywood Broun died. Here is a sample of one of his columns. From “It Seems To Me.” He loved vaudeville and the stage.
On Actors
Nothing in the world dies quite as completely as an … Read the rest
Walk in the Footsteps of the Algonquin Round Table in New Guide Book to Jazz Age Writers & Wits
New York—Retrace the steps of the legendary wits that convened at the Algonquin Hotel in 1919 who called themselves the Vicious Circle. THE ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE NEW YORK: A HISTORICAL GUIDE is the first book to fully explore the whole … Read the rest