Louise Brooks, the Persistent Star - new book now available

I have published a new book, Louise Brooks, the Persistent Star. In my opinion, it makes for good reading, and is a book every Louise Brooks fan will want to own.

It gathers a selection of my best published articles, essays, and blogs about the silent film star. The actress' best known films -- including Beggars of Life, Pandora's Box, and Diary of a Lost Girl -- are discussed, as are many other little known aspects of Brooks' now legendary career. A few are previously unpublished.

These pieces, some of which goes back 15 years, range from the local ("Louise Brooks, at the corner of Brooklyn Avenue and 16th Street") to the worldly ("Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan"), from the provocative ("A Girl in Every Port: The Birth of Lulu?") to the poignant ("Homage to George W. Lighton of Kentucky, idealistic silent film buff who perished in the Spanish Civil War"), from the quirky ("Louise Brooks' First Television Broadcast") to the surprising ("A Lost Girl, a Fake Diary, and a Forgotten Author").

Also included are related interviews with other devotees of Louise Brooks including English actor Paul McGann (the eighth Doctor Who), singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, and novelist Laura Moriarty (author of The Chaperone, which is soon to be a major motion picture from PBS Masterpiece). Louise Brooks, the Persistent Star is 296 pages, with approximately 115,000 words of text and dozens of illustrations (many little seen).



The book is available on amazon -- order a copy HERE.  This English-language book is also available through amazon Canada, England and Australia, as well as on the amazon sites in Mexico and Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Japan.

It is also available on Barnes & Noble website HERE, as well as on IndieBound.

This book, my fourth, is a publication of the Louise Brooks Society. As of now, it is a print-only book.

I am also continuing work on a few other book and non-book projects, and have begun to gather material and assemble a fifth book, an oversized pictorial, tentatively titled Around the World with Louise Brooks. I hope to have this multinational and multilingual title ready sometime in 2019

Autographed copies of Louise Brooks, the Persistent Star may be purchased directly from the author.