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Centennial of The New Yorker Walking Tours

February 21 is the centennial of the cover date of the first issue of The New Yorker. It is also International Tour Guide Day. So I am going to be offering my two most popular walking tours to celebrate. Yes, these are […]

Kevin FitzpatrickJanuary 7, 2025January 8, 2025

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Author Talk July 30 in Bucks County, PA

Dorothy Parker was among many New Yorkers who found a second home in beautiful Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the 1930s. Just 82 miles southwest of Times Square, the rolling hills and farmhouses drew the city dwellers during the Depression. Famous Manhattanites such […]

Kevin FitzpatrickJuly 24, 2024

Dorothy Parker Complete Broadway, 1918-1923

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Dorothy Parker Complete Broadway Turns 10

This week Dorothy Parker Complete Broadway, 1918-1923, turns ten years old. It is almost hard to believe that a book I researched for five years has been out for a decade. As I say when I give talks about the book, here […]

Kevin FitzpatrickMay 6, 2024May 7, 2024

Woodlawn Cemetery, at Dorothy Parker's Grave.

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Return to Leading Tours

I am very happy to be leading tours in New York City again. My first back was September 24, where I led my Secrets of Scott and Fitzgerald Tour from Times Square to Central Park. My upcoming tour is brand new, and […]

Kevin FitzpatrickOctober 5, 2020

The Hotel Commodore, circa 1919. Library of Congress.

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RIP Commodore Hotel aka Grand Hyatt

My friends of the Guides Association of New York City, of which I’m a proud member, tipped me off to the news today that the Grand Hyatt Hotel is going to be razed. This is sad because 2019 is the centennial of […]

Kevin FitzpatrickFebruary 7, 2019

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Dorothy Parker Birthday in 2 Boroughs

I added a blog post on my site dorothyparker.com about the celebration on Wednesday, Aug. 22, for the 125th anniversary of Dorothy Parker’s birthday. She was born Dorothy Rothschild on Aug. 22, 1893, in Long Branch New Jersey. I’m leading a walking […]

Kevin FitzpatrickAugust 19, 2018August 19, 2018

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Cocktail Book Talk on a Rooftop

Last night I got the opportunity to do something I’ve not done in a couple of years. I didn’t know how much I missed it until I actually was doing it. This was a quick book talk about Under the Table: A […]

Kevin FitzpatrickAugust 2, 2018August 1, 2018

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Tours of Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker Homes

The first public walking tours of 2018 will be in January and February. The walks are led by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, author of The Algonquin Round Table New York and A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York. Algonquin Round Table Tour Mondays, […]

Kevin FitzpatrickJanuary 18, 2018January 20, 2018

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Dorothy Parker Reviews the Ziegfeld Follies

On Saturday I debuted my W.C. Fields History Walking Tour as part of Fields Fest, a 6-week celebration of the life of the great comedian. Dorothy Parker was a huge fan of Fields. In my book The Algonquin Round Table New York: […]

Kevin FitzpatrickNovember 21, 2016November 21, 2016

Research

Goldwin Starrett and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918

All of my book research is starting to cross over, and I am reminded of this today because it is the ninty-eighth anniversary of the death of Goldwin Starrett, the young architect of the Algonquin Hotel, in 1918. It was only this […]

Kevin FitzpatrickMay 9, 2016May 18, 2016

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