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Saturday, May 31, 2014

New edition of Laura Moriarty's The Chaperone from Spain

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A new edition of Laura Moriarty's The Chaperone is out today in Spain. This handsome softcover edition of the bestselling American n...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Ramona, the song (at San Francisco Silent Film Festival)

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Tonight, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival screens the 1928 historical drama Ramona , based on Helen Hunt Jackson's popular 1884 n...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Lulu's debut. . . on this day in 1905

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On this day in history, Lulu made her debut in Vienna. The premiere of Frank Wedekind’s Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora’s Box ), a...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

The Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler, Jodi Picoult, and The Diary of a Lost Girl

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I am continuing to research The Diary of a Lost Girl , Margarete Böhme's controversial 1905 novel which served as the basis for the equ...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Louise Brooks as a lost girl

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Louise Brooks in a scene from Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), directed to G.W. Pabst. She awaits tomorrow's shocking post here on the Lou...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Louise Rutkowski, Diary of a Lost Girl

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A new album by Louise Rutkowski titled Diary of a Lost Girl was released on Jock Records in February of 2014. Recently, I emailed the S...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

It's the Old Army Game - A round-up of reviews

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It's the Old Army Game , Louise Brooks' fourth film, was officially released on this day in 1926. The film is a comedy about a sma...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Another Louise Brooks inspired novel

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Valentina is an erotic novel based on the Valentia comix  by Guido Crepax, which were inspired by Louise Brooks. Pictured here is the Ital...