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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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A conversation with the Cornelius Vanderbilt biographer.
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Digital books and iPads are certainly changing the way that people write, but so did computers when they first came out. You just have to move with the culture and […]
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Writing a novel isn’t a practical, logical thing to do. The author starts by writing an outline from an “emotional place” and then becomes a “cool technician” to shape it […]
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“It’s very easy to write a script compared to a book,” says the author. A novel is not a logical thing and it doesn’t come from a logical place—a screenplay […]
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It’s much less fun to release a book these days—with all the necessary Twitter and Facebook promotions—than when the novelist began.
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The author has “no idea” why characters from his previous novels reappear in his new ones. “It just feels right.”
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“There’s an argument to be made, sure, that the violence in ‘American Psycho’ was gratuitous,” says the author. But he also sees how the book is “a kind of performance […]
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The biggest mistake young screenwriters make is “over-reliance on dialogue” when, in fact, a screenplay is really about setting up the visual scene.
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The tendency seems to be toward telling the same old stories with a new kind of “visual panache.” The screenwriter wants to see “more movies of substance.”
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Screenwriting is like creating Frankenstein’s monster; assembling body parts is easy, but giving them life is “almost impossible.”
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At first, the critical consensus was that “Groundhog Day” was merely “cute.” But over time it developed a mass following of viewers and critics alike.
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The screenwriter had 50 meetings with different producers when he was trying to sell his script. The most common reaction: “I loved ‘Groundhog Day.’ Of course, we can’t make it.”
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Rubin’s 1993 comedic cult classic is actually an examination of whether one lifetime is enough for some men to fully outgrow adolescence
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A conversation with the “Groundhog Day” screenwriter.
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The ADL National Director says judgment is still out on whether the positives promised by religion are outweighed by the negatives.
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We’re seeing a policy that distances the United States from Israel in order to reach out to the Arab Muslim world.
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If criticism of Israel’s policies demeans or degrades the country—or questions its legitimacy—then it’s anti-Semitic.
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Sacha Baron Cohen as “Borat” wasn’t funny, says Foxman. Neither was Archie Bunker in “All in the Family.”
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Anti-Semitism can be based on everything from religion to ignorance to wealth to capitalism.