In Books, we turn from the silver screen to the printed page, exploring how stories about film, history, and the people behind them continue to evolve in ink and memory. Each title reviewed here—whether a sweeping studio chronicle, an intimate biography, or a rediscovered memoir—reveals another layer of Hollywood’s long conversation with itself. These pages trace the way legends are written, revised, and sometimes redeemed. It’s a space for reading as reflection, where criticism meets curiosity and every book becomes a bridge between cinema’s past and the imagination that keeps it alive.
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For more than eight decades, Larry Edmunds Bookshop has stood as Hollywood’s temple of the written word—a haven for cinephiles, scholars, and dreamers chasing the ghosts of the silver screen. Established in 1938 and still thriving on Hollywood Boulevard, the shop has survived changing times, digital revolutions, and even the decline of brick-and-mortar bookstores. Within its shelves lie thousands of volumes on film, theater, and photography—many long out of print—alongside vintage posters, scripts, and memorabilia that trace the very evolution of motion pictures. To walk through its doors is to step into a living archive of Hollywood’s history. Supporting Larry Edmunds Bookshop isn’t just an act of commerce—it’s an act of preservation, ensuring that future generations can continue to hold Hollywood’s story in their hands. Order your favorite books, some are autographed, online at Larry Edmunds Bookshop
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With Sisters in Death: The Black Dahlia, the Prairie Heiress, and Their Hunter (Citadel Press, on sale October 28, 2025), producer-turned-investigative writer Eli Frankel aims at the most infamous unsolved murder in American history: the 1947 killing of Elizabeth Short, the “Black Dahlia.”
Thomas J. Slater’s June Mathis: The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary restores one of silent Hollywood’s most important figures to film history by undertaking the process of finding and parsing the relevant materials.
We celebrate Hollywood—past and present. Through history, biography, and review, this blog explores the people, films, and places that shaped the dream factory, preserving its stories while connecting them to today’s entertainment world.