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When Harry Met Ayn: A Laissez-faire to Remember

Minh Le

Staff Writer

Minh is the author of Let Me Finish! a debut picture book that will be published by Disney-Hyperion in 2016. By day he works in early childhood policy and in 2010 helped design 826DC‘s Museum of Unnatural History (the only place you can both support youth creative writing and get your daily supply of unicorn tears). He also writes about children’s lit at Bottom Shelf Books and occasionally for the Huffington Post and others. Follow him on Twitter @bottomshelfbks.

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Ever since I read that a young Ayn Rand got her start in Hollywood, I haven’t been able to shake the idea of a Randian Romantic Comedy.  There’s just something about her controversial philosophy of rational self-interest that seems oddly appropriate for the genre.

So let’s take a look and see if applying some of Rand’s writing to a classic romantic comedy would result in a laissez-faire to remember.

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