by Chad | Oct 18, 2017 | Book Reviews, Community, Top Five and Why, Trends and Culture
1. The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Tell Your Family History, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More Bruce Feiler’s “Secrets” tops our list because of his innovative and practical approaches to parenting. His method itself is something of...
by Chad | Oct 13, 2014 | Book Reviews, Community, Creativity Forum, Trends and Culture
“It’s no easy business to be simple.” Gustave Flaubert had a terrible time keeping his life and art simple in the ways he wanted them. Of course, he did manage to achieve something through his years of toil and search for le mot juste, and the...
by Chad | Jul 8, 2014 | Book Reviews, Community, Trends and Culture
I just happened across an impressive interactive time map showing the loss of native American land year by year since 1776. It’s enthralling to stop the rapid progression and check it out year by year. The map led me to Claudio Saunt, author of the...
by Chad | Jun 23, 2014 | Book Reviews, Creativity Forum
“History handles our past like spoiled fruit.” If you haven’t discovered Charles Wright until now, he’s a great choice for U.S. poet laureate, and as an excellent beginning point, I recommend his mid-career trilogy, Negative Blue. Becoming a...
by Chad | May 21, 2014 | Book Reviews, Community, Trends and Culture
“Are video games a worthy way to spend my time?” Tom Bissell’s journalistic, slightly nerdish quest to discover what is great and not-so-great about videogames and videogame culture, is a fascinating book in many respects. Bissell, who is in his...
by Chad | May 20, 2014 | Book Reviews, Creativity Forum, Trends and Culture
Invisible Cities is Calvino at his thematic and structural best. For more about this amazing book check out his Top 5 and Why. The following excerpt was recorded at the 92nd St. Y on March 31st, 1983. Skip ahead to the English portion of his reading if you prefer at...
