Read about MANK, the movie, along with THE BROTHERS MANKIEWICZ, the book:
Vulture, New York Magazine. See the movie, read the book: “What to Read, Watch, and Listen to If You’re Obsessed With Mank on Netflix”
The Current, Criterion.com. Sydney interviews David Fincher: “The Man in the Wings: David Fincher on the Shadowy Life of Herman Mankiewicz”
Variety. David Fincher mentions Sydney’s interview (15 minutes): “Ben Affleck Reunites With ‘Gone Girl’ Director David Fincher, Accuses Him of Making a Movie With Heart”
Literary Hub, Sydney writes about Mank: “The Mankiewicz Brothers’ Biographer Weighs in on David Fincher’s Mank”
Publisher’s Weekly, Sydney on seeing her subjects on screen: “Appreciating the Success of ‘Mank'”
Classic Movie Musts Podcast, Sydney & host Max Baril discuss Mank, scene by scene
For hardcover, e-book, and audiobook:
Bookshop.org Indiebound.org Amazon.com Target Barnes & Noble University Press of Mississippi
Penguin Random House Audio libro.fm Apple Books Audible Google Play
Drawing on interviews, letters, diaries, and other documents still in private hands, The Brothers Mankiewicz provides a uniquely intimate behind-the-scenes chronicle of the lives, loves, work, and relationship between these complex men.
Last year Sydney joined host Ben Mankiewicz and Joe Mankiewicz’s daughter, Alex, for a three-night Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Mankiewicz Family Weekend of programming.
MANKIEWICZ FAMILY WEEKEND on TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES (TCM)
Afterward Sydney appeared (on Twitter) from Turner Classic Movies in Atlanta:
What surprised you when you wrote the book?
Which movie best embodies the Mankiewicz wit?
Click here for Sydney on podcasts talking about the Mankiewiczes and their movies.
about Sydney
Sydney Ladensohn Stern is a New York-based freelance writer who has contributed to the New York Times and many other publications.
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