by Rafal Reyzer You’ve heard that to become proficient at any specialized skill, you need at least 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. This view has been popularized by Malcolm Gladwell through his book The Outliers. The 10k rule has since been debunked, and we intuitively know that improvement doesn’t take so long. However, […]
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by Lauren Sapala One of the first things a writer learns is about the power—and the challenge—of the rewrite. For those writers who assume that everything Ernest Hemingway wrote flowed perfectly out of his pen on the very first try, the illusion is shattered. The more experience a writer gains, the more they […]
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by Andrea Lundgren It’s a topic that, in real life, we think about more than we’d like to admit: how much we make, how much we can spend, and how we can make more money all has a place in our thoughts.
Maureen Bharaoocha’s film Golden Arm was set to premiere at the SXSW film festival before fears of the Coronavirus outbreak forced programmers to cancel the event.
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Today, I am delighted to welcome into the Library fellow historical fiction author Carolyn Hughes. She has dropped in to say hello and to share some insights into her life as an author. You are very welcome, Carolyn, please introduce yourself: Hello, I’m Carolyn and I write historical fiction. (Sounds like we’re in a meeting […]
1957’s courtroom drama, 12 Angry Men, starring a young Henry Fonda clocks in at #87 on our list. The film opens with a judge giving instructions to a jury in a capital murder case. We see a brief shot of the defendant. The film then moves to the set where it spends almost all of […]
A brisk 91-minute comedy-musical, 1935’s A Night at the Opera is really just a showcase for the Marx brothers, in particular Groucho, and their comedy stylings. Let me start by saying that the plot of this movie doesn’t make a lot of sense. Otis Driftwood (played by Groucho) is some sort of high-society clown who […]
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James Cameron’s epic (and I do mean, epic, as it cost a record-at-the-time $200 million to make and clocks in at 3 hours and 14 minutes) love story Titanic signs in at #83 on our list. The film begins with a crew looking for a lost diamond necklace in the wreckage of the RMS Titanic […]
James Cameron’s epic (and I do mean, epic, as it cost a record-at-the-time $200 million to make and clocks in at 3 hours and 14 minutes) love story Titanic signs in at #83 on our list. The film begins with a crew looking for a lost diamond necklace in the wreckage of the RMS Titanic […]
1960 was a big year for film with the release of The Apartment (review to come next week) and Stanley Kubrick’s Roman epic Spartacus. It was such a big year that Spartacus didn’t even get a nomination for best picture, in spite of the fact that it now sits at #81 on the AFI list. […]
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