Three Uses of the Knife
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Three Uses of the Knife
| Full title | Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama |
|---|---|
| Author | David Mamet |
| Published | 1998 |
| Pages | 87 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Mamet’s short book on what drama is and what it is for. Anna Gát recommended it as the fix for “storytelling” that is only a bucket of loosely connected facts. |
| Where I saw it | Anna Gát quote-tweeted Lulu Cheng Meservey’s post that “storytelling requires a story” (a beginning, middle and end; a protagonist and an antagonist; a quest, a surprise, a change, a resolution) and added: “Everybody should read this book.” See Yep. Everybody should read this… (tweet). |
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- Yep. Everybody should read this… (tweet)
- Lulu Cheng Meservey
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