February 5, 2021, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Film, Research + TeachingThe women who made Selznick’s screenplays by ERIN MCGUIRL This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Research is part of the history of Hollywood’s Golden age. Eighty years ago, in the heyday of the studio system, little libraries on studio lots employed a handful of people who collaborated with writers, directors, producers,… read more
November 19, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + Teaching75 YEARS HENCE: Arthur Miller adapts Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for radio by JANINE BARCHAS This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? On the 18th of November in 1945, Arthur Miller’s radio adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice could be heard nationwide as part of a special Thanksgiving program. Listeners in New York heard it at 10 p.m.… read more
October 14, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + TeachingLearning how to read again This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Part of what is so compelling about doing research with old books is that the learning curve never ends—there’s always some new challenge, another thing to explain, something else to get to the bottom of. Reading old books… read more