If you're given a gift voucher for Christmas, you might want to buy Marc Norman's book What Happens Next: A History of Modern American Screenwriting.

Marc Norman picked up an Oscar for co-scripting "Shakespeare in Love" with Tom Stoppard. Now the UC Berkeley graduate has taken a break from screenplays to write "What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting." Besides chronicling the long-standing tension between moguls and scribes, Norman goes to the source for the story behind the story on Robert Towne's "Chinatown," Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" and Charlie Kaufman's "Adaptation." (Source)

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Have yourselves a merry one!