Five stories about movies, for your reading pleasure.
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Behind the Scenes of Children’s Television: A Reading List
These stories explore the art and economics of making television for kids.
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Behind the Scenes of Children’s Television: A Reading List
These stories explore the art and economics of making television for kids.
Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Reading List
14 Stories About Love: A Reading List
Revel in all the feels with these 14 (get it?) essays and interviews.
Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Reading List
14 Stories About Love: A Reading List
Revel in all the feels with these 14 (get it?) essays and interviews.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week, featuring, The New Yorker, Toronto Life, The AV CLub, The Atlantic, and Radio Silence.
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David Letterman’s Reluctance on Becoming an Actor
From The AV Club’s oral history of Airplane!, which looks back on how the hit 1980 comedy was made.
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Longreads Best of 2013: The Most Surprising Piece of Cultural Criticism of the Year
DuckTales Invented a New Animated Wonderland—That Quickly Disappeared Todd VanDerWerff | The AV Club | February 2013 | 9 minutes (2,159 words) Elizabeth Hyde Stevens is author of the book Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career. “I was shocked that Todd VanDerWerff was able to write such a […]
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Longreads Best of 2013: The Most Surprising Piece of Cultural Criticism of the Year
Elizabeth Hyde Stevens is author of the book Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career. “I was shocked that Todd VanDerWerff was able to write such a serious essay about the show DuckTales. As a kid, I saw every episode, and didn’t think much about why it was good, […]