This would be the time to quote a certain Cole Porter song on summery temperatures, but...
The heat (33 degrees Centigrade today - phew) is making me tetchy, I stop remembering that I'm not supposed to get on the net and comment when I'm tetchy, but you know, getting online was worth it anyway, because Martin Scorsese's upcoming George (Harrison) documentary has acquired this really cool trailer:
Oh, and something else. Should you happen to be in Los Angeles in the midst of September and by any chance interested in a) the emigrés and exiles of the 30s and 40s, b) German-Jewish writers, c) historical novelists or all of the above, check out this conference. A lot of the presentations are in English as well as in German, so even if you don't know any German, you could come to some that intrigue you. Also? The Feuchtwanger library is my favourite library in the world. And not just because one of the librarians there told me about the possibility of getting a scholarship to stay in Pacific Palisades at Feuchtwanger's old house for three months, which I subsequently did, but because of all the manuscripts and letters they have there. Once you discover such gems as a letter from Chaplin after he got barred from returning to the US to Feuchtwanger, or were allowed to open an unread letter to Heinrich Mann by his youngest brother Victor (unread because poor Heinrich died first) for the first time, finding in it old Mann family photgraphers Vicco wanted to share, you're just spoiled for all the other libraries. :)
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Click to viewOh, and something else. Should you happen to be in Los Angeles in the midst of September and by any chance interested in a) the emigrés and exiles of the 30s and 40s, b) German-Jewish writers, c) historical novelists or all of the above, check out this conference. A lot of the presentations are in English as well as in German, so even if you don't know any German, you could come to some that intrigue you. Also? The Feuchtwanger library is my favourite library in the world. And not just because one of the librarians there told me about the possibility of getting a scholarship to stay in Pacific Palisades at Feuchtwanger's old house for three months, which I subsequently did, but because of all the manuscripts and letters they have there. Once you discover such gems as a letter from Chaplin after he got barred from returning to the US to Feuchtwanger, or were allowed to open an unread letter to Heinrich Mann by his youngest brother Victor (unread because poor Heinrich died first) for the first time, finding in it old Mann family photgraphers Vicco wanted to share, you're just spoiled for all the other libraries. :)
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