Hello. I have news! And a little request to make.
Silent London may be a little neglected over the summer, because I am writing a book. Yay! Just a little one. The site won’t entirely close though: I hope to pop back here occasionally to update you on the progress of the book, and my research, and maybe to find a little company during my summer hibernation.
The book will be a BFI Film Classic, on a very special and beautiful movie. I’ll be writing about … Pandora’s Box (1929), GW Pabst’s dazzling take on Wedekind’s Lulu plays, starring the endlessly fascinating Louise Brooks. I know that many of you love this film – and quite right too. So I am very pleased to be spending the summer with Georg and Louise and Frank, sweating happily over a hot keyboard.
Film Classics are short and sweet as you may know, but I will still be working full-time so it may take me a little while to get there. And I will probably still be writing elsewhere. As always, the best way to keep up with the other things I write is here on my portfolio site, or by clicking on the “More by me” tab at the top of the site.
Obviously, in what feels like the dim, distant future when the book is published, I’d love it if you could buy it, or put it on your Christmas lists, or borrow it from your library, or just tell some interested friends about it.
But that’s not the request I want to make today. It’s simply this: don’t be a stranger! Bear with with Silent London while it is on a go-slow – I’ll still post here, and on Facebook and Twitter sometimes. And please be patient if all I seem to talk about is Neue Sachlichkeit and Brooks’s razor-sharp fringe for a while.
Thank you Silent Londoners!
Silent London 
Super exciting news! Good luck at the keyboard!
Thanks Jenny! I am guessing Brooks never shared any recipes to sustain me though the long slog?
This is brilliant news – congratulations!! (and good luck too) see you soon (I hope!). Tony x
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Yay! Thanks and yes I hope to see you soon too. London or Bologna perhaps?
That’s very good news. I’m a great fan of the film and the BFI classic series.Look forward to reading it when it comes out. Ray Snook.
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Oh thank you – that is very good to hear. I will do my best!
Wishing you all the best with the book, look forward to it’s publication.
Thank you so much Sheila.
Keep us posted! I may be able to do better than check it out from a library – I may be able to buy it for one of the libraries I work for!
Ooh that is an exciting thought!