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Finding Favorites is where we learn about people’s favorite things and get recommendations without using an algorithm. Every other week, host Leah Jones sits down with a guest to learn about how they found their favorite thing, why they love it and why they think other people will fall in love, too.
Curtis Smith, author of Deaf Heaven (available May 2025) and The Lost and The Blind, is a professor who loves 70s Hollywood. Leah and Curt talk about his new book, favorite movies and directors. Build your own 70s To Watch list from this episode.
Leah is still collecting voice memos for the best of 2024 episode slated for January 12th. There's still time to send in a 1-5 minute clip highlighting some of the things you found and loved in 2024.
Follow Curtis online
Short stories collections: https://www.press53.com/curtis-smith
Curtis on Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/contributors/curtis-smith-4ddf66b4-7838-4c5b-a813-010b2772f1a7
Deaf Heaven: https://bookshop.org/p/books/deaf-heaven-curtis-smith/22029558?ean=9781960018786
The Magpie's Return: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-magpie-s-return-curtis-smith/17051877?ean=9781947041615
The Lost and the Blind: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-lost-and-the-blind-curtis-smith/19735398?ean=9781955062619
Show Notes
Jen Michalski: https://bookshop.org/contributors/jen-michalski
JMWW: https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/
Ben Tanzer: https://www.tanzerben.com/
This Podcast Will Change Your Life: https://tbwcylinc.libsyn.com/
Flannery O'Conner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannery_O%27Connor
The Graduate: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/
The Twilight Zone: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052520/
Vivian Maier: https://www.vivianmaier.com/
Mary Ellen Mark: https://www.maryellenmark.com/
The Center for Creative Leadership: https://www.ccl.org/
Running Wild Press: https://runningwildpublishing.com/
To Sir, with Love: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062376/
The Godfather: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/
The Conversation: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/
Dog Day Afternoon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072890/
Nashville: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073440/
Robert Altman: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000265/
McCabe & Mrs. Miller: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067411/
The Long Goodbye: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070334/
Francis Ford Coppola: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000338/
Apocalypse Now: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/
Martin Scorsese: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000217/
Mean Streets: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/
Taxi Driver: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/
Raging Bull: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081398/
Brian De Palma: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000361/
Blow Out: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082085/
Sisters: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070698/
Terrence Malick: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000517/
Days of Heaven: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077405/
Badlands: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069762/
The Candidate: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068334/
Robert Redford: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000602/
The Parallax View: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071970/
Warren Beatty: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000886/
John Cassavetes: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001023/
A Woman Under the Influence: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072417/
Regal Unlimited: https://www.regmovies.com/unlimited
The Substance: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17526714/
Demi Moore: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000193/
The Exorcist: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070047/
Gene Hackman: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000432/
Dustin Hoffman: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000163/
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115/
Three Days of the Condor: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/
Shampoo: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073692/
Reds: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082979/
Faye Dunaway: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001159/
Robert De Niro: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000134/
Al Pacino: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000199/
Woody Allen: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000095/
John Travolta: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000237/
Urban Cowboy: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081696/
Tree of Life: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478304/
Gosford Park: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280707/
The Player: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/
Megalopolis: https://
Finding Favorites with Leah Jones
Finding Favorites is where we learn about people’s favorite things and get recommendations without using an algorithm. Every other week, host Leah Jones sits down with a guest to learn about how they found their favorite thing, why they love it and why they think other people will fall in love, too.
