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The Social Network

Best Article Arts Movies & TV

Generation Why?

The difference between a social network and a movie about a social network, and what it says about the Facebook generation.

Zadie Smith New York Review of Books Nov 2010 20min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Friending Aaron Sorkin

A profile of Sorkin, who wrote The Social Network. “I don’t feel like a nerd,” he says, “but I think I understand them.”

Lynn Hirschberg W Oct 2010 15min Permalink

Arts Tech Movies & TV

Inventing Facebook

The writer (Aaron Sorkin), director (David Fincher), and actors (Jesse Eisenberg & Justin Timberlake) of The Social Network on dramatizing the real story of a 20 year old into “the Citizen Kane of John Hughes movies.”

Mark Harris New York Sep 2010 25min Permalink