Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Photo of the Day

 

Los Angeles, 2018

My Favorite Film Noir Poster, Today

 


Dear Santa...

 

Here’s the list I’m sending to Santa this year for things (well, books) I wouldn’t mind finding under my Christmas tree.  If anyone reading this would like to share their list in the comments, I’ll pass it along to St. Nick as well. 

Books

Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100  (Baseball) 

Louis Menand, The Free World: Art & Thought in the Cold War (History) 

Joel Selvin, Hollywood Eden (Music) 

Ronald Brownstein, Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics (Music/Movies) 

Ted Gioia, Music: A Subversive History (Music) 

Thomas Wolf, The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 (Baseball) 

Luke Epplin, Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball (Baseball) 

Aaron Leonard, The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, USA-1939-1956 (Music) 

Ryan H. Walsh, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 (Music) 

Jack Hamilton, Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination (Music) 

Robert Forster, Grant & I (Music) 

Joseph McBride, Two Cheers for Hollywood (Movies) 

Stephen Petrus, Folk City: New York and the American Folk Revival (Music) 

Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year That Rocked the World (History) 

David Bordwell, Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling 

Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI's War on Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power (History) 

Fred Turner, The Democratic Surround (History) 

Colin Westerbeck, Vivian Meier: The Color Work (Photography)