Paulie And Martha!!!!!

Novelist Patricia Highsmith ate the same thing for virtually every meal: bacon and fried eggs. She began each writing session with a stiff drink—“not to perk her up,” according to her biographer, Andrew Wilson, “but to reduce her energy levels, which veered towards the manic.” Then she would sit on her bed surrounded by cigarettes, coffee, a doughnut and a saucer of sugar, the intention being “to avoid any sense of discipline and make the act of writing as pleasurable as possible.”

From Killian Fox, The Gannet’s Gastronomic Miscellany, 2017

More writers’ food habits from LitHub

a little doodle of vita sackville-west!! :D

john and yoko in Japan!!

Marie Laurencin Autoportrait 1905

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marth Gellhorn

that’s my girl 😌😌 (2nd favorite journalist from this time period)

I think that her book/interview with Hitler ranks up there with one of the best nonfiction journalistic books of WWII/Great Depression. I think a lot of people criticize her for calling him a “little man” without realizing that on paper in the 1930s it was easier to predict that Hitler was nothing more than an egotistical little man. Like it was kind of hard to see this coming from the earlier stages of Germany. From a critical perspective, it was easy to call off his behavior as ridiculous, we all would if we were in these early stages of his time period and didn’t know what was to come. Unfortunately, so many people did not know what was going to happen. It’s hard and complex to understood the psychological desperation of the German people and whatever was going on there.

Just my perspective towards Dorothy Thompson’s analysis of the Nazi Regime and the hate that she usually gets for predicting that Hitler’s ridiculous behaviors wouldn’t go far. Anyways, very early on she realized her mistake and published many articles opposing Nazism, also her article Who Goes Nazi? is super well-written.

So from a prospective journalism major I don’t support any hate towards her. There was nothing she could do to prevent WWII anyways.

btw sorry if you guys don’t wanna read a tumblr post about Hitler at like 7 am, I’m doing an article commentary on normative transgressions according to the Evers typology, so global politics has been on my mind a lot ｓｏｒｒｙ

On 25 August 1934, Dorothy Thompson (pictured above) becomes the first American journalist to be expelled from Germany by the Nazi regime.

Five Days of Yam-Pak Movies ～ Day 1: Madam Yun // 芸娘 (dir. Chu Kea / 珠璣, 1960) - starring Yam Kim Fai (任劍輝) and Pak Suet Sin (白雪仙)

Summary and more information under the cut!

Summary Inspired by Shen Fu/沈復's Qing Dynasty autobiography Six Records of a Floating Life/浮生六記. Madam Yun focuses on Shen Fu (Yam Kim Fai) and his wife Yun (Pak Suet Sin), who live in married bliss with their children at the former’s familial home. However, they fall foul of the machinations of Shen Fu’s younger half-brother, who has designs on the inheritance, and are summarily kicked out. The young family struggle to adjust to their poverty, but their plight is worsened by Yun becoming chronically ill; these desperate straits result in Shen Fu having to leave his family behind in search of paying work. Thankfully, after all his efforts he is able to find a benefactor, and the family is reunited under one roof (which is, sadly, not what happened in real life).

Links:

My post about Yam Kim Fai and Pak Suet Sin being queer icons

Full movie on YouTube

i randomly found this

i feel a little better now after doomscrolling on tumblr for an hour… look I’m learning new things

Fay M. Jackson (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 8 May 1902 

RIP: 3 June 1979

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Journalist

Note: During the 1930s became the first Black Hollywood correspondent for the ANP. In 1938, she founded the Cinema League of Colored Peoples, to shape the representation of racial minority characters and stories in Hollywood films.

I watched this 3 times because I was trying to edit it in a funny style in like 9th grade 💀

Anna May Wong and Marlene Dietrich in “Shanghai Express” (1932)