Steven Bernstein DGA, WGA, ASC
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Steven Bernstein DGA, WGA, ASC
@sbernsteinwrites.bsky.social
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Feature film director, novelist, screenwriter. Podcast: Filmmakerandfans. New Novella: GRQ
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Tom Walker (Jonathan Pie) and me at Waterstone's June 6th, Trafalgar Square 7PM. To launch my novella, GRG, which became my film. Please come.
sbernsteinwrites.bsky.social Steven Bernstein DGA, WGA, ASC @sbernsteinwrites.bsky.social · Apr 7
Very excited. Join us.
sjkenyon.bsky.social Sarah-Jayne Kenyon @sjkenyon.bsky.social · Apr 2
Not to be missed. Steven Bernstein and Tom Walker (aka our very own Jonathan Pie) are really very much more cheerful in person! 😉 So looking forward to this London launch of GRQ. 📚💙 #BookSky #Crypto @thebookseller.com
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April 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
sbernsteinwrites.bsky.social
brilliant
jonathanpienews.bsky.social Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · Apr 5
Don’t forget you can binge these over the weekend while you’re planting petunias, or traveling on a bus to visit a poorly relative, or browsing etsy for handmade bongs, or whatever the fuck it is people do with their free time these days.
jonathanpienews.bsky.social Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · Mar 28
The first 4 episodes of the new series of Call Jonathan Pie are available now on BBC sounds and drop weekly WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
April 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
sbernsteinwrites.bsky.social
Very excited. Join us.
sjkenyon.bsky.social Sarah-Jayne Kenyon @sjkenyon.bsky.social · Apr 2
Not to be missed. Steven Bernstein and Tom Walker (aka our very own Jonathan Pie) are really very much more cheerful in person! 😉 So looking forward to this London launch of GRQ. 📚💙 #BookSky #Crypto @thebookseller.com
@vanityfair.com
flyonthewallpress.bsky.social Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social · Apr 2
What a TREAT - @jonathanpienews.bsky.social to be in conversation with author and Hollywood director Steven Bernstein at Waterstones Trafalgar Sq June 6!

'GRQ': the story of a tense, one-day descent into the madness of betting the house on a crypto dream.

www.waterstones.com/events/grq-s...
April 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm To: Byron Preiss Dear Byron, Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above). I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible. One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the way it is! There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense. Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And 'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'. There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to "Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
sbernsteinwrites.bsky.social
Love this. Love it.
krissychula.bsky.social Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · Apr 6
This is high art
April 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM