Writing as a Team Sport or a “Do It Yourself” Activity
Genius, based on a book by Scott Berg, emphasizes the dedication of Scribner editor Max Perkins to bring out the best in writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. With red pen in hand and a fedora atop his head, Colin Firth does a valiant job of taking the audience along for the bumpy ride that is the creative process from idea to book launch. At the same time, he reveals Mr. Perkin’s humanity as someone who wants words to empower and inspire. Selling books seems almost secondary. Jump ahead about eighty years and you might hear authors shout “My how things have changed.” Their plaint is that corporateRead More →