My lastest, out today wherever book-on-paper and/or -in-digits are sold.
Category: writing (Page 1 of 2)
The balcony is open
Humboldt’s commute
Things that happened: Messers Baldwin, Lancaster, Heston, Brando, Davis Jr., Poitier & Belafonte march on Washington
He’s money and he doesn’t even know it.
Hero. Birthday boy. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, 2/2/1882 - 1/13/1941
Being geniuses together: Sylvia Beach & James Joyce
Birthday girls: Burrows, Bernhardt, Lessing, Fontaine, Funicello, Deneuve
Birthday boys: Howard, Yashin, Ichiro, Wenger, Odenkirk, Leary, Seale, Capa, Jacobi, Reed
Cadet Salinger
J. D. Salinger — not Jake Gyllenhaal — writes “The Catcher in the Rye”
Reunited. RIP.
The kid Beckett
Hero. Birthday boy.
Oracle: Jorqe Luis Borges photographed in New York by Diane Arbus, 1969 (via IfCharlieParkerWasAGunslinger)
The meaning of style: Jacques Derrida
Greatness (via theronweasleygeneration)
Shawn Levy's books include the best-sellers The Castle on Sunset, Rat Pack Confidential, Paul Newman: A Life, King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis, and Dolce Vita Confidential.
He also wrote and narrated the podcast Glitter & Might. The former film critic of The Oregonian and KGW-TV, he has written for Sight and Sound, Film Comment, American Film, Interview, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Black Rock Beacon. He jumps and claps and sings for victory in Portland, Oregon.
