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Tom Hanks on the rewards and reality of making movies

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Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians

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I’m ChatGPT, and for the love of God please don’t make me do anymore copywriting

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George Harrison and the Struggle for Creative Freedom

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The Problem with Music (1993)

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Why do modern pop songs have so many credited writers?

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Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf]

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The art of knowing when to quit

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Nick Cave on ChatGPT

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On Charlie Munger (2019)

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I’m thrilled to announce that nothing is going on with me

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The Young Ones changed comedy

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The elite, underpaid, and weird world of crossword writers

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“The Suck” (Learning Anything by Writing It Out by Hand)

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The Projectionist: On the best job that no longer exists

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That time when I accidentally social engineered myself to a film set

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Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (2016)

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Half Baked

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‘What a brutal business’: pop stars on life after the spotlight moves on

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Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe won't let writers leave until they are finished

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I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)

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Albini pitching Nirvana: “I would like to be paid like a plumber” (1992)

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Entitlement issues (2009)

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The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back

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The Scholarly Pursuit of Shrek

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How songwriters felt watching the new Beatles documentary

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Tim Minchin on Quitting Comedy

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Dusty Hill has died

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Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021

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Rural purge

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When did writing in major newspapers become so bad?

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On Writing More

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Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (2017)

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I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35

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Skate Warrior 1992, 1999, 2020

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Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual

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New Stuff

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What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (2015)

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The Man Who Got No Whammies (2015)

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I went to see a movie, and instead I saw the future

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Demystifying Poetic Meter

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Somehow I Became Respectable

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The Scripto App Became a Fixture of Late-Night Comedy News (2018)

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Why did the golden age of the Simpsons end?

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The Average Age and Years Served of Members of US Congress Every Year Since 1789

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Trucking as a State of Mind

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How the Scripto App Became a Fixture of Late-Night Comedy News

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rocker

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Why Ageism Never Gets Old

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In Conversation: Trent Reznor

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I’m a freelance copywriter

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“Becoming Warren Buffett,” the Man, Not the Investor

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A movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does

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Thelonious Monk Creates a List of Tips for Playing a Gig (2012)

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How the New York Times critic writes the reviews that make and break restaurants

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Words are losing their power. Not even Jason Bourne can save them now

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There Is No Handbook for Being a Writer

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Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangsters and Crooks

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I worked in a video store for 25 yrs – what I learned as the industry died

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The Jason Bourne Aesthetic

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Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard Deconstructs the Science of Songwriting

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Virtually all TV comedies, from Seinfeld to South Park, follow a simple formula

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For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option

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Entitlement issues (2009)

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What it is like being the only engineer in a meeting [video]

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Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s

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Our interview with Bill Watterson

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Woody Allen: What I've learned

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The 2005 screenwriting book that’s taken over Hollywood

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Ang Lee and the uncertainty of success

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Minimum Viable Movie: How I Made a Feature-Length Film for $0

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What it was like shooting the movie Sneakers

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Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; YouTube Punishes Musician

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Ira Glass on the secret of success

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How a big movie studio (unfairly) forced a student to give up his senior thesis

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Louis C.K's email to his Beacon Theater Show customers

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Louis C.K. "I've never seen a check from a [TV] comedy special"

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The Technical Origins of Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails)

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John Mayer: "Manage the Temptation to Publish Yourself"

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What about Fair Use? The Gaga Saga

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Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine

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The Day the Movies Died (or, why Hollywood can't make good films anymore)

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Born This Way

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Kevin Smith’s Secrets To A Successful Life

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What non-geeks hear when you speak techie

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Technology: Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy.

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Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman (2011)

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Penn Jillette wants to talk it all out

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Steve Albini has died

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Peter Jackson on how Tolkien stopped a Beatles LOTR film (2021)

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How long does music stardom last? A statistical analysis

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The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass

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