Showing posts with label New Yorker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Yorker. Show all posts

Friday, September 9, 2022

Louise Brooks, the still silent muse

Louise Brooks is having a moment.... Just recently, the New Yorker magazine reprinted Kenneth Tynan's 1979 profile of the actress, "Louise Brooks Tells All," in its August 29, 2022 issue. That recent issue celebrated great magazine profiles from the past. Tynan's rightly celebrated piece certainly fits the bill. (Also included in the August 29th  issue was a piece by Hilton Als, who profiled Missy Eliot. Als, I should note, wrote about Brooks in his 2013 book, White Girls.)


Louise Brooks is also included in the most recent issue of FICTION magazine, a literary journal issued by the City College of New York. Issue number 65 includes an excerpt from Jerome Charyn's new novel, Lulu in Love. I have read the entire work manuscript, and am looking forward to the day when it is published. In the meantime, Charyn's new piece is, as of now, only available in print.

Adjunct to Charyn's piece, I was asked to write a piece noting some of the other instances in which Louise Brooks shows up in fiction, the genre, not the journal. I contributed "Louise Brooks: Silent Muse," which can be read online. It explores how Charyn, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Willem Frederik Hermans, Ali Smith and other authors have employed the actress in their fiction. I hope everyone takes a few minutes to read my piece. And while you are at it, because I know you will want to, be sure and read Tynan's and Charyn's pieces, if you haven't already done so. Be included in the smart set.

This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society (www.pandorasbox.com). Original contents copyright © 2022. Further use prohibited.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Louise Brooks in the New Yorker

Christopher Isherwood, author of the Berlin Stories - which became Cabaret, had a thing for Louise Brooks' neck. He raved about it. Film critic David Denby has a thing for Louise Brooks' back.



Writing in the current issue of the New Yorker magazine, Denby has authored a long piece celebrating the silent film era and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist. Louise Brooks' back plays a central role in Denby's piece, and, she is pictured more than once. Denby's four page article is well worth reading. Check it out here.

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