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"It’s one of those ideas that is obvious only once you know it—that praising kids for their abilities (as opposed to their efforts) can actually be detrimental. Dweck’s research is among the most important for parents to know. Her book goes far beyond the implications for children and has lessons for all in work and personal life."

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Sloane Crosley recommended Edie: American Girl in Books (curated)

Edie: American Girl

Jean Stein | 2021

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"The ultimate oral history and still the most objectively cool book I’ve ever read. It’s perfectly structured and the most important book about America in the 1960s. And, beyond that, how a person gets destroyed. There’s a poem in it that Patti Smith wrote about Edie Sedgwick the day she died and I often think of it."

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Beyond The Reach (2015) in Movies

May 4, 2021

Beyond The Reach (2015)

2015 | Mystery

9.0

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Nowhere to Go

Beyond The Reach- is a excellent survival of the fitnest film. Micheal Douglas is excellent in this film.

The plot: In the Mojave Desert, a naked and unarmed hunting guide (Jeremy Irvine) runs from a wealthy hunter (Michael Douglas) who wants to ensure his silence in the death of an old man.

Highly recordmend.

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Maggie Nelson recommended The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien in Books (curated)

The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien

David Hinton | 2000 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics

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"Another book that brought me to poetry, and which never seems to get old (and this despite the fact that T’ao Ch’ien lived from 365 – 427 C.E.). I consider T’ao Ch’ien a calm, necessary friend holding out a hand across time: “A thousand years may be beyond me, / but I can turn this morning into forever.”"

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Quentin Tarantino recommended Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife in Books (curated)

Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife

Eric Rentschler | 1996 | Essays, Film & TV, History & Politics

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"A wonderful critical reexamination of German cinema under Joseph Goebbels. Rentschler goes far beyond the demonizing approach employed by most writers on this subject (like Susan Tegel in Nazis and the Cinema). His excerpts from Goebbel’s diaries are priceless. And after all these years he dares to make a fair appraisal of Nazi filmmaker Veit Harlan."

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