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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 28, 2021 2:20:36 GMT
Thank goodness Greta Garbo encouraged her confidante Salka Viertel to write. With cameos by Kafka, Sarah BernÂhardt, Eisenstein, Isherwood, and many others, Viertel’s memoir is humane, lightly ironic, and dizzyingly enterÂtaining. It’s a portrait of two lost worlds—the preÂ-Hitler GermanÂ-speaking stage and the pre-ÂCGI Hollywood—as well as the story of an actress and screenwriter who all her life was bold in love and passionate for the arts. —Caleb Crain www.nyrb.com/products/the-kindness-of-strangers?variant=6868662779956just started...
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Post by hi224 on Jan 31, 2021 23:07:10 GMT
Thank goodness Greta Garbo encouraged her confidante Salka Viertel to write. With cameos by Kafka, Sarah BernÂhardt, Eisenstein, Isherwood, and many others, Viertel’s memoir is humane, lightly ironic, and dizzyingly enterÂtaining. It’s a portrait of two lost worlds—the preÂ-Hitler GermanÂ-speaking stage and the pre-ÂCGI Hollywood—as well as the story of an actress and screenwriter who all her life was bold in love and passionate for the arts. —Caleb Crain www.nyrb.com/products/the-kindness-of-strangers?variant=6868662779956just started... now i am tempted to pick this up as well.
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Post by Rufus-T on Feb 1, 2021 23:46:49 GMT
Sounds like an good read.
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