Thomas Gladysz

Thomas Gladysz is an arts journalist and author. He writes about early film, books, art, music, and popular culture and has contributed to various print and online publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Film International, Pop Matters, Red Cedar Review, and Fiction magazine. His interviews with poet Allen Ginsberg appear in "Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg" (Prestel / National Gallery of Art), "Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996" (HarperCollins), and "Conversations with Allen Ginsberg" (University Press of Mississippi). Gladysz is the founding director of the Louise Brooks Society™ (www.pandorasbox.com), a pioneering website and online archive launched in 1995. He has contributed to books and festival programs, lectured, organized exhibits, and introduced Brooks' films around the world. "Louise Brooks: the Persistent Star" collects earlier writings on the actress. Gladysz assisted with the preservation of two Brooks' films, "The Street of Forgotten Men" and "Now We're in the Air", and authored books on each. Gladysz edited and wrote the introduction to the "Louise Brooks edition" of Margarete Bohme's "The Diary of a Lost Girl," and contributed an audio commentary to the Kino DVD of the film. He also contributed a commentary to the KINO release of "Beggars of Life," and authored "Beggars of Life: A Companion to the 1928 Film". Gladysz long worked as a bookseller in San Francisco, California. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and now lives in Sacramento, California. More at www.thomasgladysz.com