This strikingly well researched non-fiction piece goes way beyond the making of the classic film to explore the deeper and flawed notion of mythmaking in our country. The prose was very accessible and the account of the real child abduction story behind the movie was just as captivating as the f...
Dickens has London, Raymond Chandler’s knight-errant detective works out of Los Angeles, and Anne Tyler’s moody introverts haunt Baltimore. John Ford’s greatest Westerns purportedly took place all over the Southwest, but they were all filmed in one place. Like Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre, F...