Jensen Beach: “The Apartment”
This week’s New Yorker story is “The Apartment,” by Jensen Beach. Come join in the discussion! Read the full post.
Trevor Berrett
Flicker Alley’s Chaplin’s Mutual Comedies
In 1916, Chaplin signed on with a new studio, the Mutual Film Corporation, and became the highest paid entertainer in the world. In a lovingly compiled dual-format home video release, Flicker Alley presents beautiful restorations of all twelve of the films Chaplin made at Mutual. Trevor looks at Flicker Alley’s Chaplin’s Mutual Comedies. Read the full post.
John Wyndham: Chocky
Trevor reviews John Wyndham’s 1968 novel, the last one published in his lifetime, Chocky. Read the full post.
The Eclipse Viewer 33: Three Wicked Melodramas from Gainsborough Pictures
David and Trevor are back with The Eclipse Viewer 33: Three Wicked Melodramas from Gainsborough Pictures. Read the full post and get the link to the podcast.
François Truffaut: Day for Night
Earlier this year, The Criterion Collection release François Truffaut’s The Soft Skin, and today they follow up with another wonderful release from Truffaut: his delightful, warm, and reflective 1973 film Day for Night. Trevor reviews the film and discusses the new edition. Read the full post.
Alice McDermott: “These Short, Dark Days”
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Alice McDermott’s “These Short, Dark Days” was originally published in the August 24, 2015 issue of The New Yorker. I like Alice McDermott’s work, at least the little of it that I’ve read. Last year Picador put out some lovely editions … Read more
Flicker Alley’s Chaplin at Keystone
I’m planning on making the next few months Chaplin months because there’s a special book coming out a bit later this year: The Charlie Chaplin Archives from Taschen. For those of you who do not know Taschen, it is an “art book” publisher that specializes in large, detailed, photo-heavy tomes on a variety of subjects. My wife … Read more
Emmanuel Bove: Henri Duchemin and His Shadows
Trevor reviews a new collection of short stories, Henri Duchemin and His Shadows, by Emmanuel Bove and translated from the French by Alyson Waters. Read the full post.
Kingsley Amis: Dear Illusion
This week NYRB Classics published a collection of Kingsley Amis’s short stories, Dear Illusion. Trevor shares his thoughts. Read the full post.
Flicker Alley’s The Mack Sennett Collection: Volume One
Flicker Alley’s giant The Mack Sennett Collection, Volume One is one of the best (because it’s important, because it’s historic, because it’s absolutely delightful) home video sets I’ve encountered this year (though it came out in 2014). Read the full post.