177: Dana Stevens (CAMERA MAN: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century) & Fernando Pessoa's THE BOOK OF DISQUIET
In This Episode:
Dana Stevens stops into the Damn Library to talk about her new book, Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century, and it allows for lots of subject hopping, from the birth of movie reviews to Buster Keaton's model trains to the trick of describing movies dynamically. Plus, she brings along Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, a fascinating posthumous tome from a prolific contemporary of Keaton who Dana Stevens is also obsessed with.
THE EP. 177 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Christopher: The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
Dana: A Monica Vitti Poster of a still from L'Avventura
ALSO MENTIONED:
Brown Derby Restaurant by Sally Wright Cobb
River of Shadows by Rebecca Solnit
West of Sunset by Stuart O’Nan
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Pessoa: A Biography by Richard Zenith
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Dana: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, read by Juliet Stevenson, Merlin, Cornell’s Bird ID Program
Christopher: How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, read by Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, MacLeod Andrews, Jeanne Sakata, Greg Watanabe, Kurt Kanazawa, Matthew Bridges, Kotaro Watanabe, Brianna Ishibashi, Joe Knezevich, Micky Shiloah, Stephanie Komure, Jason Culp
