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Debra Di Blasiauthor profile |
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| place of birth | United States | |||||||||
| website | http://www.debradiblasi.com | |||||||||
| genre | Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Arts & Photography | |||||||||
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about this author
Debra Di Blasi is the author of three story collections and recipient of many awards, including the James C. McCormick Fiction Fellowship, Thorpe Menn Book Award, Eyster Prize in Fiction, and Cinovation Screenwriting Award. The film based on her novella, Drought, won a host of national and international awards, and was one of only 6 US films invited to the Universe Elle section of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Her innovative writing has been anthologized and adapted to film, radio, music and theatre, here and abroad. She is president of Jaded Ibis Productions, a transmedia corporation™, producing a mélange of prose, poetry, video, audio, music, visual art, and ironic consumer products, and the video-podcast arts network, BLEED. |
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life (Hardcover) by Steven Johnson bookshelves: currently-reading |
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recommended for: people who think they know how to think
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"Johnson explores the physiology of his own brain and, ergo, ours in this mainstream (i.e., not esoteric) book. His thesis is right: the more we know how our brains actually function, the more control we have over how and what we think and do. Examp...more
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Debra said:
"Johnson explores the physiology of his own brain and, ergo, ours in this mainstream (i.e., not esoteric) book. His thesis is right: the more we know how our brains actually function, the more control we have over how and what we think and do. Examp...more
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Debra you said, "Consider that we know far less than we "know" we know."
That's right Debbie, I feel the same way about myself. I'm not conceited, in fact I don't even think I'm half as smart as I really am.
All joking aside, good luck with your books. I've added them to my to-read list
Debra you said, "Consider that we know far less than we "know" we know."
That's right Debbie, I feel the same way about myself. I'm not conceited, in fact I don't even think I'm half as smart as I really am.
All joking aside, good luck with your books. I've added them to my to-read list
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