• I spend hours drowning in the arcana of Decaying Hollywood Mansions, a peephole into the obscure, whispery corners of Golden Age Tinseltown. [1 of 3]
 

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culture 31 Jul 2012

by Megan Abbott, the author of six novels, including The End of Everything and, most recently, Dare Me.
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  • It recalls the glinting appeal of Giant Pants of the ’30s, which captures the decade’s surrealism, from Busby Berkeley to Man Ray, in its silken pleats. [2 of 3]
 
  • Speaking of Berkeley, is there anyone better at offering up the stuff of our glimmer-dark unconscious? Everything we never knew was there. [3 of 3]
 
  • Images (in order): photo via Vintage Hollywood Mansions; photo via Giant Pants of the ’30s; screen grab of Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence.
 
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