Artforum
“Painting the Way I Wish I Could Talk,” Joe Brainard at Tibor De Nagy
Bookforum
Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 by John Leonard
Inferno by Eileen Myles
Role Models by John Waters
Miracles and Sacrilege: Roberto Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood by William Bruce Johnson and Hollywood’s Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration by Thomas Doherty
Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Frieze Magazine
Looking Back
Design Observer
“Phil Spector vs. The Wall of Sound”
London Review of Books
“Miss Lachrymose,” Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door by David Kaufman (subscription required)
Los Angeles Times
Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford by Leslie Brody
Pedigree by Georges Simenon
Lips Unsealed by Belinda Carlisle
Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited by Molly Haskell
Born to Be Hurt: The Untold Story of Imitation of Life by Sam Staggs
Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners by Laura Claridge
“Mailer Remembered”
Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies by Richard Schickel
Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and It’s So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture by Vanessa R. Schwartz
Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King by Foster Hirsch
New York Times Book Review
It’s Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks by James Robert Parish and Rickles’ Book by Don Rickles with David Ritz
“Hollywood Chronicle”
Paris Review Daily
Documenta 13
Taylor’s Multitudes: The Elizabeth Taylor collection at Christie’s
Screen Shots: Worship, fandom, and the celebrity picture
A Filmy Kind of Dread: George Simenon’s Pedigree and Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Other links
Angela Dufresne’s Parlors and Pastorals at CRG Gallery and Monya Rowe
A Q&A about working on the Museyon Film + Travel Guides
From 2005 to 2010, I wrote a blog called Kill Fee, which I’ve since retired. These are some essays that I first wrote for the site.
Berlin Notes (parts 1 and 2)
Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog
Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces
Sidney Lumet’s The Group
“Leakage: Susan Sontag’s Reborn”
