Category Archives: Books

January newsletter: The Whole of the Moon, Sonny Boy and Train Dreams

    Photos: Classiq Journal     “I also learned by watching and experiencing everything through the life of the street and the storytellers on the street. They were wonderful – the ones on the street corner, the tough guys … Read More

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November Newsletter: At the Movies in Marylebone, Pamela Hanson’s 90s, and Mermaid Avenue

    Photos: Classiq Journal     “I began taking photographs as a teenager and have recorded my life ever since. I moved to Paris in 1980 and started documenting my life, shooting fashion for the magazines and for myself … Read More

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Read instead…in print #39: Lubitsch Can’t Wait

  They don’t make comedies like they used to. A cliché? Maybe. But it also just happens to be the plain truth. And they have never made comedies like Ernst Lubitsch did. His comedies make us laugh by not showing, … Read More

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October Newsletter: River of Hills, Bread of Angels, and Desperate Literature

    Photos: Classiq Journal     ”I watched a teenager at the bookstore counter ask if they still sold a novel that had been banned at her school. The clerk nodded. “We keep a few in the back.” She … Read More

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Read instead…in print #38: Conversations at the AFI with the Great Moviemakers

  Reading the series of talks compiled in Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers, with directors, writers, actors, cameramen, composers, editors, feels like attending the seminars yourself. More than that, these conversations, preserved and presented here … Read More

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