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What Silent Film Taught Me About Storytelling at Lithub.com

By Dominic Smith

“Silent films began to teach me how to listen to my characters and their world in a whole new way as a writer. And they reminded me of narrative lessons that I thought I’d already mastered.”

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The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith is out now via Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

14 Writers Choose One Book That Gives Them Hope in a Dark Time

Fourteen writers on the one book that brings them hope in the midst of hopelessness at Lithub.com

Erling Kagge about The Story of Albert Schweitzer:
“Schweitzer’s idea in Reverence for Life: that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil slowly opened a new horizon. I started to see that everybody can change the world. One small step at a time. Even a mouse can eat an elephant if it takes small enough bites. The challenge lies in the desire.”
Erling Kagge
Norwegian explorer, appears at Hay Festival Querétaro to talk about his latest work, Walking; One Step At a Time.

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