by Lynne Weiss | Nov 1, 2019 | What I'm Reading
I’m fascinated by the idea of ‘excavation.’ Gerwig talks about seeing her girlhood in the pages of “Little Women” and excavating that work for her film interpretation. Years ago (when I was 9 or so) I wanted to be an archaeologist of the...
by Lynne Weiss | Jan 3, 2019 | What I'm Reading
I heard about Vera Tobin’s book Elements of Surprise on the Hidden Brain podcast. Shankar Vedantam was interviewing Tobin about her work analyzing the ways in which knowing/not knowing affects the unfolding of narrative and how writers/filmmakers plant seeds to...
by Lynne Weiss | Sep 30, 2015 | About Me
Novels, essays and non-fiction – including the tale of a forgotten Kennedy and a short story collection about Chechnya. Source: BBC – Culture – Ten books to read in October
by Lynne Weiss | Dec 5, 2014 | About Me
Science Shows Something Surprising About People Who Still Read Fiction – Mic.