May 29, 2015

10 screenwriting tips. Also, The Art of Screenwriting.



William Finnegan's Off Diamond Head in the latest New Yorker was a great read. Now I am reading his 1992 piece Playing Doc’s Games.

May 1, 2010

Beers for the weekend from Harpoon Brewery.



Harpoon Brewery
306 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA 02210
& 336 Ruth Carney Drive, Windsor, VT 05089



This week's New Yorker has a long piece by Janet Malcolm about a Murder trial held in Queens. She thinks Journalism is to be questioned: "Malice remains its animating impulse" "A trial offers unique opportunities for journalistic heartlessness." A fascinating piece. I don't agree with some of her observations but what a unusual style. Now I have to read her most famous work.



"Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible."