Smashbomb

"Poetic and oh-so-funky, Orson Welles’s filmic essay on deception has balls of experimental steel. Cobbled together in his later years of European exile, it’s both a cheeky thesis on the nature of fakery and the best example I can imagine of filmmaking as giddy, childlike play. Now if someone would only do a decent DVD of The Trial, we’d be in business. (Nudge, nudge.)"

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Richard Serra recommended Self-Reliance and Other Essays in Books (curated)

"I read “Self-Reliance” when I was 17 as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley in the ‘50s. In this short essay, Emerson takes a stance against conformity and insists on trusting your own judgement, on finding your own path, on living in the present and augmenting what is unique to your own character. These are the principles that have shaped my life and work."

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The Warren Buffett Way: Workbook

Robert G. Hagstrom and Russell Rhoads

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The Warren Buffett Way Workbook consists of over 500 questions and answers to help readers of The...

An Argument Open to All: Reading the Federalist in the 21st Century

Sanford Levinson

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From one of America's most distinguished constitutional scholars, an intriguing exploration of...

Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) rated Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry in Books

Jul 2, 2019

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A book of why I write by people who write

A book of short essays from poets writing about the art of poetry. Look out for Kathleen Jamie's essay on truth, very insightful. Some of the book was like a massive tongue twister whilst others where thought provoking. Worth a read if you want an insiders view.

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Feminasty

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What makes you a nasty woman? Kate Harding and Samhita Mukhopadhyay, co-editors of the new Nasty...

Karley Sciortino recommended A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again in Books (curated)

"Another obvious choice, but I have so much love for DFW. I have always been more drawn to his non-fiction, and this collection of essays is my favorite. The first writing of his that I ever read was the title essay of this collection, and it made me want to be a better journalist. It think DFW is a writer that generally inspires other writers to want to be better."

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Debra Granik recommended Generation Wealth (2018) in Movies (curated)

Generation Wealth (2018)

2018 | Documentary

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" I always want to shout out props to hard hitting essay films. This was nuts! I felt sick during and after, but I was full of admiration for the sheer strength and determination it took to make this film and the thinking that forged these themes into a cogent survey of something extreme and disturbing in human nature and the times in which we live. Not for the over-sensitive."

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