Preview of November’s Autonomia

Topics include Billy Wilder in Europe, Fashion and Travelogue

As year twenty-one of the 21st century comes to its final days, Autonomia nears the first anniversary. Accordingly, I’m creating the publication’s first promotional pitch, a limited offer which will launch soon. Look for new articles and other additions, too.

This new book features rare reporting and writing by the fabled director of some of Hollywood’s greatest motion pictures, including some personal favorites. Billy Wilder directed Stalag 17, The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like it Hot and The Lost Weekend. These movies depict addiction, sexuality, rebelliousness under dictatorship, suicide and delusion, underscoring that Wilder was a serious artist. The book’s editor, a film scholar I met this summer on campus at University of Texas in Austin, sourced, had translated and selected articles written by the filmmaker when he lived in Europe. My article on Billy Wilder’s journalism is one of two November book reviews. The other covers a show business legend as well; TV’s top wardr…