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F.P.A. Diary Entries For His Birthday

Franklin P. Adams wrote his diary from 1911-1941; by his estimate more than two million words. It began June 11, 1911, in the New York Evening Mail. The column was called Always in Good Humor. On January 1, 1914, F.P.A. … Read the rest

November 15, 2017January 12, 20181 Min Reading
Donald Ogden Stewart in Hot Water
History, News

Donald Ogden Stewart in Hot Water

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

October 19, 2017November 30, 20211 Min Reading
History, News

Harpo Marx Humor

On This Date 1955: Harpo Marx in Leonard Lyons syndicated column 29 Aug 1955.… Read the rest

August 29, 2017January 17, 20181 Min Reading
History

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

June 12, 2016January 12, 20181 Min Reading
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Video Interview WRNN

http://youtu.be/d8Dh7wMUTE4

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

February 20, 2015January 12, 20181 Min Reading
History

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

January 31, 2015January 12, 20181 Min Reading
6 Women You Didn’t Know Were Members of the Algonquin Round Table
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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

January 15, 2015January 17, 20181 Min Reading
Book Launch Party at the Algonquin
News

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

January 15, 2015August 3, 20181 Min Reading
News

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

January 8, 2015January 12, 20181 Min Reading
Heywood Broun on Actors and Vaudeville
History, News

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

December 14, 2014August 3, 20181 Min Reading
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Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide (Lyons Press)
Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide (Lyons Press)
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The Algonquin Round Table by Natalie Ascencious.

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