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The Secret to a Bigger Life:

Brian Grazer, photographed (with a nod to Phil Stern's 1955 portrait of James Dean). Photograph by Sam Jones.

VANITY FAIR Profile: Brian Grazer, Oscar-winning producer of A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, The Da Vinci Code, Arrested Development, and countless other movies and TV series, is most recognized for something else:

But when you're an award-winning Hollywood producer, people do everything they can to get a meeting with you. But for the past 35 years, Brian Grazer -- who co-founded Imagine Entertainment with friend and director Ron Howard -- has been the one chasing face-to-face meetings with people he's curious about.

Famed movie producer Brian Grazer aims to show people how curiosity -- even more than innovation and creativity -- can be the force that drives success at work and in life.
Article by Connie Guglielmo via CNET 
Charles Fishman is the author of The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, the bestselling book on water in America in the past 25 years. An award-winning senior writer for Fast Company, Fishman is a celebrated investigative journalist. His new book, A Curious Mind (co-authored with Hollywood producer Brian Grazer), examines the power of curiosity. LAVIN Exclusive


From Academy Award–winning producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed business journalist Charles Fishman comes a brilliantly entertaining peek into the weekly “curiosity conversations” that have inspired Grazer to create some of America’s favorite and iconic movies and television shows—from 24 to A Beautiful Mind.

 A Curious Mind is a brilliantly entertaining, fascinating, and inspiring homage to the power of inquisitiveness and the ways in which it deepens and improves us. Whether you’re looking to improve your management style at work or you want to become a better romantic partner, this book—and its lessons on the power of curiosity—can change your life.

 "A Curious Mind is a window on Brian Grazer's restless, relentless, remarkable imagination. It is a captivating account of how the simple act of asking questions can change your life."– Malcolm Gladwell

 Maybe you want to have some curiosity conversations, to sit down with a few really interesting people and try to understand how they see the world differently than you do.
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Toni Morrison’s new novel, God Help the Child, is slim but dangerous, a blade without a handle.
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There’s no safety to be found in it: each character—a runaway, an unloved child, an abandoned wife, a felon—balances on the edge of disaster and violence. No one comes from a comfortable home or has a comfortable home to go back to. This is a book of outsiders, but it welcomes you in. —
Posted by Ester Bloom 

 Toni Morrison is, without a doubt, a world-class novelist. Her work as an editor, however, has received much less attention. Morrison worked at Random House for 20 years, leaving in 1983, just before she set out to write her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved.
Age hasn't dimmed the fire in Toni Morrison, 84. The unwavering voice of black America talks about her latest novel and what it will take for racism to be a thing of the past. Toni Morrison interview: on racism, rap and Marlon Brando 
 —Article by Gaby Wood via Telegraph

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