When the Maysles Films offices moved from Midtown Manhattan to its current location in Harlem, the overwhelming archives of film, sound, photos, stills, and letters left behind from the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens were uncovered. The enormous cache of preserved material was left behind by the film’s director and producer, brothers David and Albert Maysles, who died in 1987. When Albert’s daughters Sara and Rebekah got their hands on the mess of unpublished material left behind by their father and uncle, they set to work on their own Grey Gardens project.
Holed up in a house in the East Hamptons, Sara and Rebekah Maysles spent three months living like the subjects of the documentary, Big Edie and Little Edie Beale. They dedicated themselves to combing through the hours of film and sound footage, letters and photography, in order to piece together a book based on the lives of the Beales, and the filming of the documentary. The sisters, living much like the Beales themselves, only left the house, and their work to eat, or take brief walks. The result was a new book chronicling the filming of the documentary, its impact on the lives of its creators and its subjects, told through the pieces of history they left behind.
Grey Gardens is out this month from Free News Projects.
MAKE Magazine is calling for your submissions...for the Spring/Summer 2009 issue. The theme is “Everyday Life,” and here’s what the folks at MAKE have to say about it:
“We’re looking for work that addresses little things and their big impacts- the phenomenology of daily life, the role of the routine, and the portraits of the day-to-day. Your suggestions - by way of your submissions - always help create the bigger picture. As always, quality of work is the first consideration.”
Submission deadline is April 3rd, and they’ve made it easy for you: you can submit online!!!
Maybe you’ve got a little file full of them in the back of a drawer. Maybe you’re one of those crazies who likes to frame them and keep them on display for all to see. Now we can all be one of those crazies!!!
Bill Shapiro (editor of Other People’s Love Letters) is looking for your literary rejection letters, planning to publish them in a 2010 collection entitled, Other People’s Rejection Letters.
Send rejection letters and questions to , and check out the guidelines for more information on submission.
If you need more immediate satisfaction (or sympathy), check out the excellent Literary Rejections on Display blog.
StoryStudio’s very own Anne Laughlin was recently published in the online magazine Kissed by Venus. Her short story, 30 Days Has September, is now available online at the Kissed by Venus website. There is also a great interview with Anne.
Great work!
Join Carol LaChapelle and several of the contributors to her new book Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Stories at Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N. Clark, on Thursday, July 10, at 7 pm. Listen to some great stories, drink a little champagne, buy the book, and get it signed! Questions? Call Carol at 773.262.7763 or e-mail her at . Can’t make it? Pick up the book at your local bookstore or order on-line: ISBN# 9781933338323.
Don’t forget! You can sign up for a memoir workshop with Carol on Wednesday July 23rd!
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