Thomas Flight | The Strange Reality of The Grand Budapest Hotel @ThomasFlight | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 22 hours ago.
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The Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz: amzn.to/3NM6jq1
The Society of the Crossed Keys: amzn.to/3Xt2ut6
Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig: amzn.to/447QIag
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig: amzn.to/3PxWY6o
An Impossible Exile by George Prochnik: amzn.to/3psJtdN
NY Times article by Christopher Gray: nytimes.com/2013/03/24/realestate/a-long-gone-rendezvous-with-1000-rooms.html

Thank You to Dave Wiskus for the footage of 22 Vanderbilt
& to Barbara Ender for the photo of the Village Voice Bookshop
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