Dorothy Parker – Michael A. Kahn

Yiddish Wisdom: Just a Forshpayz

Posted on April 29, 2025May 1, 2025 by Michael Kahn

As you may have noticed, many authors place a special quotation on the page before the first chapter of their novel. For example, Harper Lee opened To Kill a Mockingbird with the following quote from Charles Lamb: “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.” Ernest Hemingway opened The Sun Also Rises with this quote from Gertrude…

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Winnie-the-Pooh and Hemingway, too! Happy Public Domain Day

Posted on January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 by Michael Kahn

The past few New Year’s Days, and every January 1st going forward, herald a special event in the realm of copyright for an ever-growing collection of works of creative arts that fall into the public on that first day of the year. This January 1st marks that special day for one of our favorite literary…

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Thank you, Dorothy Parker

Posted on February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 by Michael Kahn

Dorothy Parker in 1924, photographed in the backyard of her New York residence

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Don’t Pun Me, Bro

Posted on April 16, 2013April 16, 2013 by Michael Kahn

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently published a piece on Fred Firestone, a friend and St. Louis businessman who travels to New York City once a month to co-host with his daughter Jo an event that the newspaper states “is drawing critical acclaim from the New York media and attracting sellout crowds to a club in Brooklyn for their wild and…

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