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Bookstore Tourism: Il mio tipo di posto
It’s been more than a decade since I’ve visited Florence, so you will have to forgive that I missed the grand opening to the amazing Libreria Giunti Odeon. This fabulous mash-up of a cinema, bookstore...
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On The Beach
I was surprised to stumble on the complete version of the Stanley Kramer film On The Beach posted on YouTube. The 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama had an enormous impact on me when...
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Leave the gun, take the cannoli
The historic southern Sicilian city of Agrigento is preparing to be Italy’s 2025 Capital of Culture and has taken a controversial stance against its infamous Mafia past. In a bid to reclaim its...
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When Ray Bradbury channeled Herman Melvile
I was today years old when I learned that the iconic American Sci-Fi writer Ray Bradbury was also a Hollywood screenwriter. The Los Angeles Review of Books recently published a fascinating story on...
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It’s a small world
The older that I get, the more often I stumble on snippets of information online that immediately triggers personal memory links to my own experience. In this category, I recently saw a reference to...
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A Farewell to Arms (copyright)
It’s that wonderful time of the year when we anticipate all of the amazing works of art and literature that will lose their copyright protections. So, if you’ve been hankering to write that sequel to...
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“They’ve been going in and out of style”
Continuing a tradition started in 2016, Chris the Barker has made another collage frequently updated and up to the last minute to eulogize Olivia Hussey and Jimmy Carter, in tribute to those passed...
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Starring Great Britain
According to research conducted by VisitBritain in 20 overseas markets, nine out of ten people who are interested in visiting Britain would be keen to see film and TV locations as part of their trip....
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The Trial
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the posthumous publication of Franz Kafka’s chilling novel of the nightmare world of authoritarian repression and merciless bureaucracy. I remember reading the...
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Going In Style
I finally managed to see Wim Wender’s superb film Perfect Days. This truly moving and heartfelt movie centers on a Tokyo resident who is employed cleaning a set of special public toilets in the...
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