Top 5 and Why: Current Fatherhood Books
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…
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…
“Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; the life, the soul of reading.” In terms of literary innovation, the novel has fallen on tough times. It’s too bad…
“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…
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…
“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…
“It was in the books while it was still in the sky.” Updike’s famous sentence is one of Stanley Fish’s all-time favorites and in his elegant…
“For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt of yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.” We can all agree…
As a part of continuing to share his new ideas and on his David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants book, Malcolm Gladwell speaks…
“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…
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…