NYT Bestseller “Nudge”

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My book club is diving into the NYT bestseller and winner of the Nobel prize in economics book “Nudge” by University of Chicago economist Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunnstein. The book draws on research in psychology and behavior economics to look at the underlying engineering of choice arcitecture. Am …

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An Odyssey

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Nearly finished with best-selling author Daniel Mendelsohn’s “An Odyssey” It’s a memoir in which the author, a college professor who often teaches on the Greek classics, finds that his father enrolled in one of his courses. Specifically the course on Homer’s “The Odyssey.” An epic adventure unfolds in more ways than one, more than two …

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How To Avoid The Cutting Room Floor – Editor’s Advice For On-Camera Actors

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Written by Emmy-winning editor Jordan Goldman, A.C.E. (editor on such shows as The Shield & Homeland) who takes you inside the cutting room and pulls back the curtain on how and why directors, showrunners, and editors decide whether your performance makes it on screen.  A good friend of mine in Hollywood mentioned she had been …

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Win a Free Bar of Zombie Repellent Handmade Soap

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Zombies won’t come near you when they smell this delicious pink soap. But you may attract the attention of people looking for love. Curious what it smells like? Well, it’s a secret recipe known only to a select few. Paul hand makes soap. See a bit of the soap making process in his other blog …

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