How the Breakfast Club director used an analog second brain rather than a digital one
by John Hughes, legendary director of The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Sixteen Candles, didn’t just write films — he lived a writer’s life. When he passed away on August 6, 2009, just days after my 29th birthday, I was in grad school for writing, but I hadn’t yet figured out what it truly meant to live as a writer.