Sublime

unlike her past bosses, Kosner, who fetishized the notion of New York being perceived as the crème de la crème, let her do it. (That said, he did once complain to Haden-Guest about Anna’s preference for photographers he found weird.) “He thought the world of her,” said Patricia Bradbury, an associate art director. “He also, I think, adored her

the notebooks do provide a pretty good snapshot of a creative brain moving very fast, while serving as an instrument of grounding and refinement.

his career makes it clear that he is indeed, in the literal Cahiers du Cinema sense, an auteur, willing to make the sorts of sacrifices for creative control that real auteurs have to make—choices that indicate either raging egotism or passionate dedication or a childlike desire to run the whole sandbox, or all three.

one of his best-selling authors, Willard Huntington Wright, better known to hundreds of thousands of readers as S. S. Van Dine.