Jhumpa Lahiri, on writing:

Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
- Jhumpa Lahiri.

Recommended reading - The Instant Enemy

The Instant Enemy

by Ross Macdonald.

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

ASIN: B07R5PYF7Q

Published by Alfred A. Knopf.

First published 1968.

First Edition.

Hardcover.

 

Description:

“Moves fast and is full of surprises. . . . The best work Macdonald has done in years.” – The New York Times.

“A more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were.” – Eudora Welty.

“Archer has seldom been in better form, and neither has his estimable creator.” – The New Yorker.

“Lew Archer is back, careening down the bloody trail of women who were beaten to death, a murdered cop, and a dead hobo who is the key to a 15-year-old family secret that won't die. "(The) American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald". – New York Times Book Review.

Lew Archer is hired by Keith Sebastian, a Los Angeles business executive, to find his daughter Sandy, a high-school senior who has run off with a homeless boy. Sebastian and his wife, living on the on the edge of affluent bankruptcy, seem unable to communicate with their daughter. Archer finds the runaways easily enough, but before he can return Sandy to her parents, she has participated in a violent crime. Archer’s efforts to save the girl from the consequences of her actions, and to understand those actions, involve him in a savage plot twisting deep into the past. At least one old murder and some new ones confound him and the police. Archer himself is very nearly killed by an ex-cop who wants to keep the case closed, but he finally manages to open it and let some daylight in. The Instant Enemy is Lew Archer at his toughest, and Ross Macdonald at his most trenchant in his observations of California society. 

Recommended reading - Jacob's Ladder, by Bruce Joel Rubin (2000)

Jacob's Ladder

by Bruce Joel Rubin

Published 2000.
Published by Applause Books.
 
ISBN-10: 155783086X
ISBN-13: 978-1557830869
 
Back cover description:
 
From the director of Fatal Attraction…
and the writer of Ghost…

Jacob’s Ladder.

Written by Bruce Joel Rubin.
An Adrian Lyne Film.
From Carolco Picture.
Produced by Alan Marshall.
Directed by Adrian Lyne.
With over 100 photographs from the film.

“… the screenplay moves from the nightmarish to the visionary … page for page, it is one of the very few screenplays I’ve read with the power to consistently raise hackles in broad daylight … Read it. It’s extraordinary.” – American Film.

“… one of the most original and powerful screenplays to be seen in Hollywood in years … One feels in the hands of a benevolent and sophisticated teller.” – Cinefantastique.

“… a humanistic thriller that hits like a thunderbolt.” – Fangoria.

The complete final shooting script in professional screenwriter’s format together with an annotated appendix of deleted scenes.

Jacob’s Chronicle, Bruce Joel Rubin’s book-length account of Jacob’s odyssey to the screen.

Applause screenplay series.

Born on this day – William Haggar:

William Haggar

Director

March 10, 1851 – February 4, 1925

Credits:

A Boating Incident (1905); A Dash for Liberty; or, The Convict's Escape and Capture (1903); A Duel with Knives (1902); A Message from the Sea (1905); Bathing Not Allowed (1905); Brutality Rewarded (1904); D.T.'s, or the Effect of Drink (1905); Desperate Footpads (1907); Dick the Kisser (1908); Flynn's Birthday Celebrations (1904); Fun at the Waxworks (1905); Mary Is Dry (1905); Mirthful Mary in the Dock (1904); Mirthful Mary: A Case for the Blacklist (1903); Pongo the Man Monkey (1906); Snowballing (1904); The Bathers' Revenge (1904); The Biter Bitten (1904); The Dumb Man of Manchester (1908); The Life of Charles Peace (1905); The Maid of Cefn Ydfa (1914); The Maniac's Guillotine (1902); The Meddling Policeman (1904); The Poachers (1903); The Red Barn Mystery (1908); The Rival Painters (1905); The Salmon Poachers: A Midnight Melee (1905); The Sheep Stealer (1908); The Sign of the Cross (1904); The Squire's Daughter (1905); The Tramp and Baby's Bottle (1903); The Tramp and the Washerwoman (1903); The Wild Man of Borneo (1902); True as Steel (1902); Two's Company, Three's None (1905); Weary Willie and Tired Tim: The Gunpowder Plot (1903); Whitewashing the Policeman (1904).

Born on this day – Barry Fitzgerald:

Barry Fitzgerald

Actor

March 10, 1888 – January 4, 1961

Credits:

Grand Hotel (1964); Play of the Week (1960); Broth of a Boy (1959); Rooney (1958); The Catered Affair (1956); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955); General Electric Theater (1954); Tonight's the Night (1954); Lux Video Theatre (1952); The Quiet Man (1952); Ha da venì... don Calogero (1952); Silver City (1951); The Ford Theatre Hour (1948); Union Station (1950); The Story of Seabiscuit (1949); Top o' the Morning (1949); Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948); The Sainted Sisters (1948); The Naked City (1948); Variety Girl (1947); Welcome Stranger (1947); Easy Come, Easy Go (1947); California (1947); Two Years Before the Mast (1946); The Stork Club (1945); And Then There Were None (1945); Duffy's Tavern (1945); Incendiary Blonde (1945); The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945); None But the Lonely Heart (1944); I Love a Soldier (1944); Going My Way (1944); Corvette K-225 (1943); Two Tickets to London (1943); The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943); Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941); How Green Was My Valley (1941); The Sea Wolf (1941); San Francisco Docks (1940); The Long Voyage Home (1940); Full Confession (1939); The Saint Strikes Back (1939); Pacific Liner (1939); The Dawn Patrol (1938); Marie Antoinette (1938); Four Men and a Prayer (1938); Bringing Up Baby (1938); Ebb Tide (1937); The Plough and the Stars (1936); Guests of the Nation (1935); Juno and the Paycock (1929); Land of Her Fathers (1924).

Born on this day – Gregory La Cava:

Gregory La Cava

Director

Producer

March 10, 1892 – March 1, 1952

Credits:

20,000 Legs Under the Sea (1917); A Bold Bad Man (1918); A Doity Deed (1920); A Heathen Benefit (1918); A Hot Time in the Gym (1917); A Picnic for Two (1918); A Quiet Day in the Country (1916); A Romance of '76 (1920); A Social Error (1922); A Sweet Pickle (1919); A Tale of a Kangaroo (1917); A Tankless Job (1917); A Tough Pull (1918); A Very Busy Day (1920); A Warm Reception (1920); A Wee Bit o' Scotch (1919); Abie Kabibble Outwitted His Rival (1917); Adventures of Mr. Nobody Holme (1916); After the Ball (1919); All for the Ladies (1918); All for the Love of a Girl (1920); Ananias Has Nothing on Hooligan (1917); Around the World in Half an Hour (1917); At the Circus (1917); At the Picnic (1917); Bang Go the Rifles (1916); Bed of Roses (1933); Big News (1929); Black's Mysterious Box (1915); Bullets and Bulls (1917); Burglars (1918); Business Is Business (1919); By the Sand Sea Waves (1917); Captain Goes a-Swimming (1916); Cartoons in a Barbershop (1915); Cartoons in a Sanitarium (1915); Cartoons in a Seminary (1915); Cartoons in the Country (1915); Cartoons in the Hotel (1915); Cartoons in the Kitchen (1915); Cartoons in the Laundry (1915); Cartoons in the Parlor (1915); Cartoons on the Beach (1915); Cartoons on Tour (1915); Chinese Question (1920); Crabs Iss Crabs (1918); Cupid's Advice (1920); Der Black Mitt (1918); Der Captain Discovers the North Pole (1917); Der Captain Goes-a-Flivvering (1917); Der Captain Is Examined for Insurance (1917); Der Captain's Birthday (1918); Der Captain's Magic Act (1916); Der Captain's Valet (1917); Der End of Der Limit (1917); Der Great Bear Hunt (1917); Der Last Straw (1917); Der Two Twins (1918); Der Wash on Der Line (1919); Doing His Bit (1918); Faint Hearts (1922); Fast and Furious (1917); Father Gets Into the Movies (1916); Fatherly Love (1921); Feel My Pulse (1928); Fifth Avenue Girl (1939); Fisherman's Luck (1918); Gabriel Over the White House (1933); Gallant Lady (1933); Good Night, Nurse (1919); Half a Bride (1928); Happy Gets the Razoo (1917); Happy Hooligan in Soft (1917); Happy Hooligan, Double-Cross Nurse (1917); Hash and Hypnotism (1918); He Tries His Hand at Hypnotism (1917); He Tries the Movies Again (1916); Hearts and Horses (1918); Helpful Hogan (1923); Hicks in Nightmareland (1915); His Country Cousin (1920); His Dark Past (1918); His First Command (1929); His Last Will (1918); His Nibs (1921); How Could William Tell? (1919); In Oil (1920); In the Zoo (1917); Iska Worreh (1917); It Beats the Dutch (1919); Jerry Ships a Circus (1916); Judge Rummy in Bear Facts (1920); Judge Rummy's Miscue (1919); Judge Rummy's Off Day (1918); Jungle Jumble (1919); Just Like a Woman (1916); Kats Is Kats (1920); Knock on the Window, the Door Is a Jamb (1920); Knocking the 'H' Out of Heinie (1919); Krazy and Ignatz Discuss the Letter 'G' (1916); Lady in a Jam (1942); Laugh and Get Rich (1931); Let's Get Married (1926); Living in a Big Way (1947); Maud the Educated Mule (1916); Mopping Up a Million (1918); Music Hath Charms (1917); My Man Godfrey (1936); Mysterious Yarn (1917); One Good Turn Deserves Another (1920); One Touch of Venus (1948); Paradise for Two (1927); Pat's Patents (1923); Peace and Quiet (1917); Pep (1918); Pigs in Clover (1919); Policy and Pie (1918); Poor Si Keeler (1916); Primrose Path (1940); Private Worlds (1935); Restless Wives (1924); Rheumatics (1918); Robbers and Thieves (1917); Round and Round Again (1916); Rub-a-Dub-Dub (1918); Rubbing It In (1919); Running Wild (1927); Saturday's Children (1929); Sauce for the Goose (1919); Say It Again (1926); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 10 (1924); Sharks Is Sharks (1917); She Married Her Boss (1935); Smart Woman (1931); Smash-Up in China (1919); Smokey Smokes (and) Lampoons (1920); Snappy Cheese (1919); So This Is Hamlet? (1923); So's Your Old Man (1926); Spirits (1918); Spring Fever (1920); Stage Door (1937); Sufficiency (1919); Swat the Fly (1918); Swinging His Vacation (1920); Symphony of Six Million (1932); Tell It to Sweeney (1927); Tempest in a Paint Pot (1917); That Reminds Me (1919); The Affairs of Cellini (1934); The Age of Consent (1932); The Animated Grouch Chaser (1915); The Best Man Loses (1918); The Breath of a Nation (1919); The Busybody (1923); The Dummy (1920); The Fiddling Fool (1923); The Four Orphans (1923); The Gay Defender (1927); The Great Handicap (1919); The Great Hansom Cab Mystery (1917); The Great Offensive (1917); The Great Umbrella Mystery (1920); The Half-Naked Truth (1932); The Latest in Underwear (1918); The Life of Reilly (1923); The Limburger Blows (1917); The Mysterious Vamp (1920); The New Recruit (1917); The New School Teacher (1924); The Pill Pounder (1923); The Sawdust Trail (1919); The Spider and the Fly (1917); The Tale of a Monkey (1917); The Tale of a Shirt (1919); The Tale of a Wag (1920); The Tales of a Fish (1917); The Tanks (1917); The Wrong Track (1920); Third, Jiggs and the Social Lion (1918); Three Strikes You're Out (1917); Throwing the Bull (1918); Too Many Cooks (1918); Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (1918); Transatlantic Flight (1919); Turn to Right Leg (1920); Twinkle Twinkle (1919); Unfinished Business (1941); Up in the Air (1918); Vanity and Vengeance (1918); War Gardens (1918); What Every Woman Knows (1934); Where Are the Papers (1919); Where Has My Little Coal Bin? (1919); White Hope (1917); Wild and Wicked (1923); Womanhandled (1925).

Born on this day – Betty Amann:

Betty Amann

Actress

March 10, 1905 – August 3, 1990

Credits:

A Simple Sap (1928); Asphalt (1929); Das Lied der Nationen (1931); Daughters of Today (1933); Der Sträfling aus Stambul (1929); Der weiße Teufel (1930); Die große Sehnsucht (1930); Die kleine Schwindlerin (1933); East of Shanghai (1931); Hans in allen Gassen (1930); Hubby's Weekend Trip (1928); In Old Mexico (1938); Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943); Motorboat Mamas (1928); Mutiny on the Blackhawk (1939); Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939); Niebezpieczny romans (1930); Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days (1930); Pyjamas Preferred (1932); Smith's Holiday (1928); Strictly Business (1931); Strictly in Confidence (1933); The Beach Club (1928); The Best Man (1928); The Big Bluff (1933); The Campus Carmen (1928); The Campus Vamp (1928); The Kick-Off (1926); The Perfect Lady (1931); The Rodeo (1929); Trail of the Horse Thieves (1929); Tugboat M 17 (1933).

Born on this day – Alice Hirson:

 

Alice Hirson

Actress

March 10, 1929 – February 14, 2025

Credits:

7th Heaven (1996–2006); A Woman Called Moses (1978); ABC Afterschool Specials (1979); Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1977); Another World (1970); Baby Blues (2000–2002); Barnaby Jones (1978); Barney Miller (1981); Bathtub Picnic (2010); Being There (1979); Blind Date (1987); Cold Case (2008); Crossings (1986); Dallas (1982–1988); Dear John (1991); Determination of Death (2001); Ellen (1994–1998); Equal Justice (1990); ER (1999); Family (1978); Flamingo Road (1981); Foley Square (1986); Full House (1987); General Hospital (1982); Godzilla: The Series (2000); Hallmark Hall of Fame (1952); Having Babies (1979); Having Babies II (1977); Home Fires (1992); Hotel (1985); Houston Knights (1987–1988); If Things Were Different (1980); If Tomorrow Comes (1986); Judging Amy (2001); Just Shoot Me! (2003); Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid (1978); Law & Order (1993); Loose Change (1978); Loving (1993); Mancuso, FBI (1990); Mass Appeal (1984); Matlock (1986); Maude (1977); Men of a Certain Age (2011); Miss All-American Beauty (1982); Murdered: Soul Suspect (2014); Murphy Brown (1990–1996); N.Y.P.D. (1968); Night Vet (2014); Nightwing (1979); NYPD Blue (2001); One Life to Live (1971–1976); Paris (1979); Particular Men (1972); Private Benjamin (1980); Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990); Psyko Ferret (2000); Quincy, M.E. (1977–1983); Revenge of the Nerds (1984); Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force (1978); Sitcom (1983); Slice of Water (2009); Slickers (1985); Somerset (1970–1976); St. Elsewhere (1983); Starlight Theatre (1951); Starman (1987); StarStruck (2010); Stepmonster (1993); Taxi (1981); The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985); The Big Picture (1989); The Death of Richie (1977); The Don of the Flies (2011); The Edge of Night (1956–1984); The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011); The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971); The Glass House (2001); The Lost (2006); The Magical World of Disney (1986–1987); The Ropers (1979); The Rules of Marriage (1982); The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2012); The Waltons (1977); Trash Truck (2021); Trauma Center (1983); When the Whistle Blows (1980); Will & Grace (2019).

Born on this day – Venetia Stevenson:

Venetia Stevenson

Actress

March 10, 1938 – September 26, 2022

Credits:

Servants of Twilight (1991); Hollywood Vice Squad (1986); Born American (1986); Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets (1984); Southern Comfort (1981); Take This Job and Shove It (1981); The Sergeant Was a Lady (1961); Studs Lonigan (1960); Seven Ways from Sundown (1960); The City of the Dead (1960); Alfred Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960); The Big Night (1960); Jet Over the Atlantic (1959); The Third Man (1959); Day of the Outlaw (1959); The Millionaire (1959); Island of Lost Women (1959); Lawman (1958); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1958); 77 Sunset Strip (1958); Sugarfoot (1957–1958); Violent Road (1958); Colt .45 (1958); Darby's Rangers (1958); Cheyenne (1957); Matinee Theatre (1957); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1957); Cavalcade of America (1954).

On this day in movie history - Journal of a Crime (1934)

Journal of a Crime

directed by William Keighley,

written by F. Hugh Herbert and Charles Kenyon,

based on the play by Jacques Deval,

was released in the United States on March 10, 1934.

A remake of Une vie perdue (1933), directed by Raymond Rouleau.

Music by Leo F. Forbstein.

Cast:

Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd, George Barbier, Douglas Dumbrille, Noel Madison, Henry O'Neill, Phillip Reed, Henry Kolker, Walter Pidgeon, Clay Clement.

On this day in movie history - Drive a Crooked Road (1954)

Drive a Crooked Road

directed by William Keighley,

written by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine,

based on a story by James Benson Nablo,

was released in the United States on March 10, 1954.

Cast:

Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly, Harry Landers, Jerry Paris, Paul Picerni, Dick Crockett, Irene Bolton, John Close, Richard H. Cutting, John Damler, Linda Danson, Diana Dawson, Jean Engstrom, Mike Mahoney, Peggy Maley, Patrick Miller, Mort Mills, George Paul, Jeffrey Stone, Amzie Strickland, Howard Wright.

On this day in movie history - Silent Running (1972)

Silent Running

directed by Douglas Trumbull,

written by Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino and Steven Bochco,

was released in the United States on March 10, 1972.

Music by Peter Schickele.

Songs: Silent Running and Rejoice in the Sun performed by Joan Baez.

Cast:

Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, Mark Persons, Steven Brown, Cheryl Sparks, Larry Whisenhunt, Joseph Campanella, Roy Engel.

On this day in movie history - Hellinger’s Law (1981)

Hellinger’s Law

directed by Leo Penn,

written by Lawrence Vail and Jack Laird,

based on a story by Lawrence Vail and Ted Leighton,

was released in the United States on March 10, 1981.

Music by John Cacavas.

Cast:

Telly Savalas, Morgan Stevens, Ja'net DuBois, Roy Poole, Rod Taylor, Melinda Dillon, James Sutorius, Tom McFadden, Lisa Blake Richards, Kyle Richards, Arlen Dean Snyder, Thom Christopher, M. Emmet Walsh, Robert Phalen, Jack Ramage, Patsy Rahn, Don Hanmer, Francis X. McCarthy, Cindy Fisher, Bill Cross, Randy Holland, Sean Penn.