Up In The Air gets so many of our modern conundrums right that it’s hard not to classify the film as a tragedy, even with some great laughs.
From The Guardian: Don’t get depressed: A writer’s guide to surviving the recession. 1.Write in English, British, or American If you want an international audience, however small, it makes no sense to write in Swedish unless you’re Stieg Larsson.
These two articles are oddly appropriate next to each other. From the LA Times: Artists are Losing Jobs Fast and Furiously. According to new research announced today by the National Endowment for the Arts, working artists are unemployed at a higher rate than other workers, and at a rate that is rising more rapidly than [...]
The novel is about a suicidal, mad pursuit of knowledge – about the desire for immortality through information – and the crash that follows. It is one of those prescient books that resonates more today, with our own financial titans falling, than when it was written in 2003.