Electronically, Parker’s Ills are Spilled Again

In a month when Michael Jackson and Led Zeppelin both put out new albums, Dorothy Parker joins their company with new material from her longtime publisher.

While Jackson’s heirs performed a séance to bring out new songs and Jimmy Page himself remastered Whole Lotta Love, Penguin Classics turned to their own house archivist on all things Parker, Marion Meade.

On May 27 the venerable house released two new electronic books of digital material. Alpine Giggle Week ($1.99) is a 1930 letter Parker pe...