Books of New York

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January 30, 2014 | 3

Martin Scorsese is finally making a movie without Leonardo DiCaprio. He and David Tedeschi are working on a documentary about The New York Review of Books. It will cover the publication’s history and feature new footage of Joan Didion and Michael Chabon, among others. The film is a work in progress but will premiere at Berlinale next month.

is an associate editor for The Millions and an editor in Atlanta. She tweets at @temalone.

3 comments:

  1. “Finally” a movie with DiCaprio? I guess “Hugo” and the three documentaries he made in between “Shutter Island” and “Wolf of Wall Street” don’t count…

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