Breakfast at Tiffany’s| Truman CapoteIt reminded me ofOn the Roadby Jack Kerouac,The Rules of Civilityby Amor Towles, and perhaps evenEveryone Brave Is Forgivenby Chris Cleave. Told from the perspective of a neighbor, the novella focuses on Holly, a young woman trying to live a glamorous ...
So the elemental question tonight is, “What do we do with our fear?” We might be tempted to wade right into it, heedlessly, dangerously and recklessly. On the other hand, we might be tempted to shut down and watch the action from afar, never risking ourselves in the arena. The worl...
However, the use of digital is costing somebody. The annual storage cost of a movie shot on film is about £700 per year and a print will last for about 100 years if carefully stored and looked after. A digital copy of the same film will cost ten times this amount and a will only...
“F**k Civility. Hyperbole, passion, and metaphor are beautiful parts of rhetoric. The marketplace of ideas cannot be toned down for the insane.” - Penn Jillette FEAR "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my ...
You know what I’m talking about. Whose values? Humans want different things, individually and collectively, and I claim that bracketing this by imagining that the main part of the problem is not turning everything into paper clips is a major mistake. I have seen way too much hand-waving ...
ANNE:My mainstream pick was Rules of Civility, eccentric, an offbeat selection, you know, maybe you’ll love it was Life after Life by Kate Atkinson. I chose a YA novel When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, and the memoir Touching the Void. ...