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A book review of a new book by Joseph McElroy, one of the "hard-to-read 13" mentioned by Franzen, began by citing "Mr. Difficult" as if it were an essential credential. [7] The review lavishly praises McElroy for maintaining his difficulty without a hint of compromise. Online critics [8] were particularly vocal following the essay's publication ...
Image credits: RidiculousSucculent "In fact, 'powerful' but incredibly difficult-to-watch films exist in any genre, from drama to comedy, from biopics to cartoons," says Dmytro Kosygin, a film ...
Sabine can beg to differ, but what makes DuVernay’s movie so essential is the way it approaches America’s most difficult issue. “Origin” draws comparisons, introduces examples and enables ...
Ron Howard has always taken pride in being an eclectic filmmaker — in the last 40 years, he has made movies about mermaids, cocoons, auto factories, astronauts, firefighters, newspapers ...
This is particularly important when adapting to a dramatic work, e.g. film, stage play, teleplay, as dramatic writing is some of the most difficult. To get an original story to function well on all the necessary dimensions—concept, character, story, dialogue, and action—is an extremely rare event performed by a rare talent.
The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems, published in 2011, is a self-help book by Stephen Covey, also the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. In it, he takes a more detailed look at habit six from that book, "synergize". [ 1 ]
Bleecker Street’s “Mass” takes place almost entirely in one room, with four characters. When writer-director Fran Kranz was hunting for funding, he resisted suggestions to “open up” the ...
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a short story collection by American writer David Foster Wallace, first published in 1999 by Little, Brown.According to the papers in the David Foster Wallace Archive at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, [1] the book had an estimated gross sales of 28,000 hardcover copies during the first year of its publication.