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Long David Simon interview from 2005ish.
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"When the MSC Napoli disgorged its cargo in Devon, it revealed the strange machinery of global trade."
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"The catastrophe is neither waiting down the road, nor has it already happened. Rather, it is being lived through. There is no punctual moment of disaster; the world doesn't end with a bang, it winks out, unravels, gradually falls apart"
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"apocalyptic dread has receded from the popular unconscious. [...] I remember a period of a few years as a child when I would ritualistically watch the first few minutes of the news just to check that a nuclear war was not imminent."
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Michael Chabon reviews Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
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Esquire "put 250 napkins in the mail to writers from all over the country [...]. In return, we got nearly a hundred stories." Cf http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2005/03/how_we_work_jon.html for more on paper.
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"The best strategy for career planning is this: make your best guess, try it out and don't be surprised if you don't like it." - and, presumably, be able to have no regrets.
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"I wonder about this compulsion to be relentlessly on the hunt for new reading material" - applies as equally to the internet as the books.
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Big collection of what i've learned columns.
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Found/hypersituated music. "For over 20 years, in addition to his work on and about the violin, Jon Rose has been bowing and recording the music of Fences worldwide."
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Huge pile of posts on scriptwriting.
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An outline (or beat sheet) "allows you to rewrite quickly and efficiently, and an outline is such a short, flexible document that if something different works better in the script all you need to do is rewrite the outline ..."
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Hey, thanks for linking to Brazen Careerist. And thanks for linking to the Esquire Napkin Project -- just spent an hour reading the napkins which are so fun.
Penelope
Posted by: Penelope Trunk | February 03, 2007 at 01:03 AM