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Jeanette Solomon When I started thinking about this piece, I thought about it as just a list of my (many!) seemingly arbitrary rules for reading. Once I got started, though, I discovered that those rules actually tell you so much about me that they double as personality traits. In fact, they say so much about […]… Continue reading What Your Reading Rules Reveal About Your Personality — L.A. Kennedy

David Corbett offers a case study of the concept of pathos, a moral argument in which an everyman employs immoral means to pursue something he considers invaluable in the face of an overwhelmingly powerful person or system. David Corbett The “bad vs. worse” set-up discussed in the article “No More Mr. Nice Guys” in the […]… Continue reading Unlikable Characters: A Case Study — L.A. Kennedy

Why do many thrillers fail to thrill? It’s usually from a lack of suspense. Novelist Leslie Lutz shares six tips to create suspense in a thriller novel. Leslie Lutz You’ve just finished reading a chapter of your thriller-in-progress to your beloved critique group, and after your writing friends get the compliments out of the way […]… Continue reading 6 Tips to Create Suspense in a Thriller Novel — L.A. Kennedy

Don’t feed the trolls. Quartz Olivia Goldhill Wildly inaccurate facts and spurious arguments are unavoidable features of social media. Yet no matter how infuriatingly wrong someone is, or just how much counter-evidence you have at your disposal, starting arguments on the internet rarely gets anyone to change their mind. Nearly a century-and-a-half ago, British philosopher […]… Continue reading 150 Years Ago, a Philosopher Showed Why It’s Pointless to Start Arguments on the Internet — L.A. Kennedy

Margaret Kingsbury “Cinderella.” “Little Red Riding Hood.” “Snow White.” “Sleeping Beauty.” “Beauty and the Beast.” “The Little Mermaid.” “Hansel and Gretel.” Most of us can probably name numerous books and movies that have reimagined these tales. It’s impressive how many variations of the same tale can be told, and it’s my proof when people ask, […]… Continue reading Why Are The Same Fairytales Retold Again And Again? — L.A. Kennedy

Dear Reader, this is a review of a Celebrity Tell-All. We dislike these kinds of memoirs, but we agreed to review this one before exercising Due Diligence. So here we are. As you might guess from the title, Seen from the Wings: Luise Rainer. My Mother, The Journey. (2019), by Francesca Knittel Bowyer, is a […]… Continue reading The Long Arm of a Hollywood Mother — Silver Screenings

Have you ever worked on a project that didn’t Pan Out? Perhaps there were politics or other constraints that prevented you from doing what might have been Best for the project. Well, nobody has a flawless record. Look at Alfred Hitchcock. His last pre-WWII, Made-In-England film, Jamaica Inn (1939), would prove to be one of […]… Continue reading A Novelist’s Success and Alfred Hitchcock’s Disappointment — Silver Screenings

Are you in the mood for some classic world cinema? Recently, our friend and fellow movie blogger, Nuwan Sen, introduced us to the 1955 Bollywood romantic comedy/drama, Mr. & Mrs. ’55. Nuwan explains the significance of “55” in the title: In India, before 1955, divorce was not recognized by the Hindus, as according to the […]… Continue reading The Marilyn Monroe of Bollywood — Silver Screenings

When he died of a heart attack an hour before his daily radio broadcast, Tom Breneman hosted one of the most popular morning radio shows in America: Breakfast in Hollywood. From 1941 to 1948, Breneman hosted a live, impromptu show that doled out charm and fab prizes. Much of the show was structured around Breneman […]… Continue reading Let’s Have Breakfast in Hollywood — Silver Screenings

Warning: Spoilers abound. We may never know how many “heroes” throughout history were actually criminals, because you know the old adage: Steal your wealth, but buy Respectability. These folks are celebrated in song, literature, and the naming of public buildings, but what if some of them were working against the system they claimed to uphold? […]… Continue reading Criminal Masterminds Who Die as Heroes — Silver Screenings