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Steve Jobs, Calligraphy, and Digital Resurrection
For that rare breed of devotee to calligraphy there is no place like the Getty Center to refresh one’s soul (thanks to same passion on the part of the oil magnate whose name it bears). All the more so when you’re in town doing your best not to sell it while trying to sell this or that project. Whatever else would come of my efforts in Hollywood, I knew that high up on a hill off the 405, above the traffic, smog, and general stench of desperation...
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Aftermath
By no dint of my own doing, it couldn’t have been a more well-timed pitch for network television. Three weeks I’d been preparing for the trip to L.A., fleshing out the premise, characters, and pilot storyline for a show about the world of first responders to natural disasters. I’d even come up with a title that excited me after the initial void of not having one....
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In Memory (and Awe) of Gordon Williams
Oddly or not, it was exactly a year ago (to the day) that I paid tribute here to one of my students from that summer’s Screenwriting/Playwriting seminar at the Glen Workshop. As I wrote in that post regarding my class: “All had come ready to put their work on the line. But one came willing to put his life on it, too"....
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Your Attention, Please
As my Good Letters colleague Jeffrey Overstreet did recently with his two-part post, “Something that I’m Supposed to Be,” one can adapt a longer talk into a blog post. In Jeffrey’s case, the talk was his plenary one at last year’s Glen Workshop, an occasion just as unforgettable in person as its recent written counterpart was memorable here on the blog. With this year’s Glen Workshop West fast approaching—I’ll be teaching the Screenwriting/Playwriting seminar for a second time—I thought I would do something of the reverse....
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Dear Harold Camping
Dear Harold Camping, I imagine this post has as much of a chance of crossing your desk as my last one did [“The End is Near” (This Saturday!)], that is, none at all. For undoubtedly anything written here at Good Letters is just the product of heretical thinking by compromised Christians; if the Church at large, as you claim, is under the thumb of Satan since God’s formal withdrawal from her in 1988 (or was it 1994?), then certainly a journal devoted to the arts and faith in contemporary culture is under it, too....
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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