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2026

What are friends for? Miss Rappe and Mrs. Whitehurstoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2026
Janitor Jesse Norgaardoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2026
Where to end the story of Maude in the final manuscript?original ↗
22 May 2026
Besties: Helen Crawford Hansen and Virginia Rappeoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2026
The Talented Mr. Fishbackoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2026
“An entirely collateral and stupid matter”: Arbuckle’s pongee PJs.original ↗
12 Feb 2026
The surgical abdomen (and an offer of proof)original ↗
5 Feb 2026
Virginia Rappe’s Green Jade Braceletoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2026
All work and no play make . . .original ↗
21 Jan 2026

2025

The Celtic prose poem: Gavin McNab’s argument for the defendantoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2025
A note on Aunt Kate Hardebeckoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2025
Inclusivity: the authentic and inauthentic working togetheroriginal ↗
20 Sept 2025
Arbuckle’s “girlie,” Kate Brennanoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2025
Fred Fishback: carrying Arbuckle’s wateroriginal ↗
21 Jul 2025
“Bad People”: Did an eminent San Francisco physician have a book in mind?original ↗
2 Jun 2025
First thoughts on my second visit to the San Francisco Public Libraryoriginal ↗
26 May 2025
A brief consideration of a tales(wo)man: Mrs. Helen Hubbardoriginal ↗
7 May 2025
Roscoe Arbuckle’s suicidal ideation  or waxing philosophical?original ↗
20 Mar 2025
“S.B., what’s a matter with her?”: Josephine Keza, the fly on the walls of Arbuckle’s Labor Day Party[1]original ↗
18 Feb 2025
Developing a few latent impressions: another note on E. O. Heinrich’s testimonyoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2025
Arbuckle renews his pep: a ms. cuttingoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2025
A Projectile Revelation in Arbuckle’s First Trial Testimonyoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2025
“Cover up”? The first day into night for reporters assigned to the Arbuckle caseoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2025

2024

Did she keep a little black book?original ↗
22 Dec 2024
Rappe as a working girloriginal ↗
20 Dec 2024
Update: The trial transcriptsoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2024
More from the director’s cut: Charles Dickens on spontaneous bladder rupturesoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2024
From the director’s cut: a long-thought passage from a short listoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2024
Core samples of 10,000+ pages: Dr. Shielsoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2024
The pending re-revision and the Arbuckle trial transcriptsoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2024
Arbuckle’s abortive ‘round-the-world tour of 1922original ↗
17 Aug 2024
Gushers? The source of Rappe’s wealthoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2024
The American Sherlock takes the standoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2024
The tears of Crystal Rivers flow—Virginia Rappe’s first flamekeeperoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2024
Update about our work in progressoriginal ↗
24 May 2024
The surname Rappeoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2024
Virginia Rappe as ur-fashionistaoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2024
Hollywood’s Problem Presented in Allegorical Fashion, February 1922original ↗
12 Jan 2024
Rappe, New Year . . .original ↗
4 Jan 2024

2023

Arbuckle’s testimony of November 28, 1921 – Revised and Expandedoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2023
At home with the Arbuckles, October 1921original ↗
28 Oct 2023
What was Virginia Rappe’s real name?original ↗
20 Oct 2023
A serendipitous step backward: A note on new sourcesoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2023
The photo insert . . .original ↗
17 Sept 2023
Virginia and a “victor”: Adela Rogers St. Johnoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2023
September 9, 1921: Virginia Rappe’s last terrible, horrible, no good, very bad dayoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2023
Setting up Virginia Rappe for September 5original ↗
5 Sept 2023
A passage from our work-in-progress for September 4, 1921original ↗
4 Sept 2023
A fashion illustration featuring Virginia Rappe?original ↗
28 Aug 2023
A passage from the epilogue in which we introduce one last “character”original ↗
19 Aug 2023
Update: The photo insert . . .original ↗
16 Aug 2023
Vamps! Fitting a bête noire of the motion picture industry into a work-in-progressoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2023
Did Virginia Rappe “help” cancel Arbuckle?original ↗
23 Jul 2023
A Note on the Virginia Rappe’s genealogyoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2023
A note on Virginia Rappe’s sexualityoriginal ↗
20 May 2023
Repainting Room 1219original ↗
25 Apr 2023
Virginia Rappe returns from the “other side” in the wake of the second Arbuckle trial, 6 February 1922original ↗
15 Apr 2023
Epilogueoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2023
Update on the work in progressoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2023

2022

The modern Sappho on the Arbuckle juryoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2022
The urodynamics of the Arbuckle caseoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2022
Virginia Rappe’s “Pyjamarama” of 1915original ↗
10 Nov 2022
NOLA: Zey handicaps the prosecutionoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2022
A magic lantern slide for A Twilight Baby, Virginia Rappe’s only star billingoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2022
Artist’s sketches from the second Arbuckle Trialoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2022
Maude Delmont takes the blame, September 10, 1921original ↗
2 Sept 2022
Minta Durfee takes the stand (or getting ahead of the court of public opinion)original ↗
26 Aug 2022
Brady answers charge of witness intimidation, January 21, 1922original ↗
22 Aug 2022
The San Francisco Call goes all-in for Roscoe Arbuckle, January 20, 1922original ↗
22 Aug 2022
Arbuckle’s housekeeper, secretary and escort: Catherine Fitzgeraldoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2022
Art Spiegelman’s cartoon contribution to the Arbuckle case and a review of literatureoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2022
The contents of the casting director’s wallet, October 1921original ↗
6 Jul 2022
Gestational cystitis and Rappe’s Baby Girl: Nurse Roth speaks out, October 28, 1921original ↗
3 Jul 2022
“I heard a man’s voice say, ‘Shut up.’”original ↗
29 Jun 2022
A new legend about Virginia Rappe: Anna Marianiaoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2022
“I Got Hot”: Maude Delmont on the standoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2022
Dr. Charles E. Barnes, the quack whose heroic measures saved Arbuckle?original ↗
27 Apr 2022
100 years ago today: The closing arguments, April 12, 1922original ↗
12 Apr 2022
Arbuckle’s lawyers as witnesses . . . for the prosecution?original ↗
10 Apr 2022
100 years ago today: How to make Virginia Rappe’s favorite cocktail on the standoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2022
Another lost opportunity: Arbuckle in the January 2022 issue of Retro magazineoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2022
You say Delmont, I say Del Monte: Arbuckle takes the stand for the last time, April 5, 1922original ↗
2 Apr 2022
April Fool’s Day 1922: Fred Fishback testifies for the defenseoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2022
100 years ago today: Virginia Breig collects the bill, March 28, 1922original ↗
28 Mar 2022
Two reporters testify and test-bed inferences based on scant reportageoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2022
Inexpert witness shopping (Chicago style) and other random thoughts regarding the third Arbuckle trialoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2022
Alice Blake breaks down on the stand, March 23, 1922original ↗
23 Mar 2022
Zey’s great escape; or the fall of a star witnessoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2022
“Fighting” Bob Shuler and the marketability of Virginia Rappeoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2022
Jesse Norgaard, the old soldier at Lehrman Studiosoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2022
100 years ago today: The third Arbuckle trial jury sworn inoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2022
Was Virginia Rappe in therapy?original ↗
1 Mar 2022
Rappe and friends in The Picture Show, 1919original ↗
20 Feb 2022
Kate Brennan, unsound witness for Arbuckle?original ↗
10 Feb 2022
A night at the opera with William Desmond Taylor and Virginia Rappeoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2022
100 Years Ago Today: The second Arbuckle trial juryoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2022
“McNab, Victorian, Flounders”—Bart Haley on the first day of jury deliberations, December 2, 1921original ↗
14 Jan 2022
First Arbuckle trial: Milton U’Ren’s closing argument, December 2, 1921original ↗
7 Jan 2022

2021

Katherine Nelson Fox, Virginia Rappe’s guardianoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2021
Bart Haley: Journalism the way it was at the first Arbuckle trialoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2021
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