Publisher BearManor Media has announced the forthcoming publication of Dear Stinkpot: Letters from Louise Brooks, by Jan Wahl. I can't wait! It should be out in a few weeks.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Dear Stinkpot
Publisher BearManor Media has announced the forthcoming publication of Dear Stinkpot: Letters from Louise Brooks, by Jan Wahl. I can't wait! It should be out in a few weeks.
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering fansite and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
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6 comments:
Yay!
I wonder what letters it'll have or how extensive it'll be...
that a must-have for sure!
I'll buy that for a dollar. Now if only, if only we could have the unexpurgated Brooks diaries I'd be a very happy girl.
”Stinkpot” being a playground epithet, it's apt abuse for a dear one like Junior who'd author a s******d of children's books. However, it derives from Chinese weaponry, not the chamber pot. The OED dates the slang use to 1854; and, for two instances, finds it in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ("Go away from here, he said rudely. Go away, you stink-pot.") and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959).
On Brooks' last night ensnared by the surly bonds of Earth*, she and Marjorie VanTassell "got into Mother Goose rhymes". So, on some basic or intrinsic level, the little girl always persisted in her, eh? ... Several composers have been inspired by Mother Goose. Ravel created "Ma mère l'oye" as a piano suite (i.e., a succession of dances) in 1910. Did Myra Brooks have the sheet music?
*Challenger had just returned, commanded by a Rochester native.
Looking forward to the book - thanks for the update.
I came across this picture on the Papaya company's blog today & thought you might enjoy it:
http://www.papayablog.com/2009/10/fearless-is.html
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