Make sure your story is nonfiction and relatable according to each job. While I love a good tale of childhood baseball games, an introduction like this one probably wouldn’t be fitting in a cover letter for, say, a software company. But a story of how the hours you spent playing with ...
Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtli...
The “I am not a robot” checkbox is an example of a captcha (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), a tool designed to filter out spam and bots. I prefer to think that its real aim is to inconvenience me. Having to find the kitty pictu...
You know, I’ve only really started to find queer media I connect to in the last couple of years, even though I’ve seen a decent amount over the years (I mean hello I’ve been watchingGrey’s Anatomyfor the past century). So really the first was Emi inEverything Leads to You, ...
Filmmaker:I think it comes more from the nonfiction side of thinking about things, but the idea is that if somebody is speaking English, that may be could be difficult to understand for reasons of regional dialect or accent or ...
Ivy:There’s a rather interesting book of nonfiction,When She Was Bad, that goes into this quite deeply…. Women are often not allowed to own their crimes but must make excuses for them such as: brainwashed or on drugs or disturbed. WE CAN’T DEAL WITH VIOLENT WOMEN. ...
ANNE: You know, we talk a lot about what we've been reading lately, but I don't know that we've had the global conversation that goes, what does summer reading mean to you? Especially in 2021, I feel like these past few years have each been very distinct and have had their own ...
and wicked soar, while sing sing gets snubbed—but what does it all mean for the oscars? by rebecca ford hollywood pedro almodóvar’s cinematic journey: “of the 23 films i have made, there are only two that i don’t like at all” in a wide-ranging interview, pedro almodóvar ...
Nonfiction books teach us new facts, but the real magic is fiction. Here, we zip another’s skin over our own bones and suddenly see through their eyes, learn what it feels like to be someone other than ourselves. Fiction imparts the gift of empathy. It’s also a vehicle for satire,...
What I am planning on reading next is another nonfiction pick. I’m really leaning hard into the nonfiction that is story driven lately. Once I found out that was even a genre, I was here for that. So that is called The Invention of Nature and it’s by Andrea Wulf. She is the gre...