Buy Airtalk: How Should Hollywood be Remembered
The world of film is synonymous with the city of Los Angeles, and the narrative the industry creates informs the reputation of the city itself. In a new book, USC professor Alison Trope hopes to shed light on the enduring efforts to memorialize and canonize the history and meaning of Hollywood and American film culture.
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Barbara Stanwwyck: The Miracle Woman
Airtalk: The Life and Art of Barbara Stanwyck
Stanwyck was a four-time Academy Award nominee, a winner of 3 Emmys and a Golden Globe. She was also honored with a lifetime achievement award by the Academy.
In “Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman,” author Dan Callahan brings the reader to the top of the profession in the golden age of Hollywood while offering a personal narrative of the sometimes under-appreciated actress.
Also Available:
The Barbara Stanwyck Collection
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Guitar Zero: the New Musicians & the Science of Learning by Gary Marcus
Airtalk: Neuroscientist Learns New Licks Late in Life
In “GUITAR ZERO: The New Musician and the Science of Learning,” 38-year-old Marcus attempts to learn the guitar. Part memoir and part scientific knowledge, Marcus discovers that the brain goes through the same processes whether you’re a child or nearing 40.
In fact, Marcus, who never played the guitar, enrolled in a music camp where he was the only adult student and was pleasantly surprised to find that he was not put to shame by the younger musicians. Not only that, he eventually went on to become a performing musician.
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Madeleine Brand Show: Long Journey of Klimt’s Masterwork
Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” is a work layered with meanings. The apogee of fin-de-siècle Viennese Symbolist painting and an exquisite distillation of feminine beauty, the work also represents the tragic story of Jewish dispossession at the hands of the Nazis and is now the topic of this new book by Anne-Marie O’Connor.
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Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: 40 Years of Funny Stuff by Calvin Trillin
Politicians tend to take themselves very seriously. That’s why we’re fortunate enough to have writers like Calvin Trillin, who’s been gently poking fun at politicians for decades.
He told a journalist once that he thought of being funny like a “mild disability”-“a weird way of looking at the world-that you can’t get rid of.”
The longtime New Yorker staff writer joined The Daily Circuit to discuss his new book of collected essays titled, “Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: 40 Years of Funny Stuff.”
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