The man who founded The Paris Review then lost his mind to it.
The amazing adventures of forgotten American novelist and Paris Review founder, Harold Louis "Doc" Humes. His story is crammed full of ideas, about utopia, marijuana, literature, protest, paranoia and mental illness.
Direction
Daughter excavates father's fractured mythology with painful intimacy.
Editing
Collage of archival footage mirrors subject's splintered consciousness.
Director
Immy Humes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Doc's daughters include literary critic Immy Humes and actress Lili Taylor, making this a family excavation.
The Paris Review's founding myth—romanticized writers in Paris—was partly Doc's invention; he was already unraveling then.
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