I haven't done a 'This Week in Books' post in a few weeks; it's one part apathy, one part late-winter depression, but March is here and it's 50 degrees out and my snowdrop bulbs started popping up, so I'm back and ready to round up.
Credits | Campaign video directed, produced, edited, shot by RAVA Films Client | Vann Alexandra, Griffin Dunne We’re so thrilled to have had the opportunity to dig through piles of history and into the life and work of notable author, Joan Didion. RAVA edited, shot and produced this campaign video for the amazing team behind the project “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live,” a feature length documentary about the legendary author, screenwriter, journalist, essayist, fashion icon, Joan Didion, who today launch a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to produce the film. Thanks: To our ever reliable music source the Free Music Archive, and the musicians who so generously share their work through the Creative Commons platform: U.S. Army Blues, Waylon Thornton. Original score composed by Hahn Rowe.
The folks working on the Joan Didion document 'We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live' have made a nice pseudo-trailer/fundraiser video. If you've already donated, it gives you a better idea of what the finished product will look like.
The National Book Critics Circle Awards were handed out this week, with top prizes going to Marilynne Robinson and Roz Chast. I don't know why, but I feel a sense of accomplishment when a book or author I've read wins a major award. It's validating of how I spent that time, I guess.
To simply call Kim Gordon a musician is like saying that Andy Warhol was just an artist. Sonic Youth co-founder, visual artist and fashion icon. She coproduced Hole's debut album, nurtured a young Kurt Cobain and put a teenage Chloë Sevigny on-screen for the first time.
My post on Kim Gordon's memoir Girl in a Band is forthcoming, but in the meantime you can watch this terrific interview between Kim Gordon and Sleater Kinney/Portlandia's Carrie Brownstein.