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Ninety-two in the Shade - Here’s a fun fact: Thomas McGuane is the first American novelist to adapt his book for the movies --- and then direct the film. Even more unlikely fact: Though McGuane was
No Place to Hide - My wife never calls me when I'm at a meeting, so at first I thought she was kidding --- how could I be the prime suspect in a car
Norman Mailer - It was the Spring of 1967, a Saturday night in Harvard Square, and Norman Mailer was exceedingly happy. And as Mailer drove his ancient
Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Manage Generation Y - I liked Bruce Tulgan before I knew what he did. You'd like him too. He's smart and funny and he listens. When I discovered he was a highly
Not Exactly What I Had in Mind - I liked it better when I didn't know how this story ended --- when I didn't know the story had an end. When I picked up Rosemary Breslin's book in 1996, I sort
Nothing Like Sunshine: A Story in the Aftermath of the MLK Assassination - I saw a Sears commercial last night that announced an “MLK Day Sale.” Well it has been 43 years since Dr. King was assassinated --- time blurs things. And now,
Nothing Like Sunshine: A Story in the Aftermath of the MLK Assassination - I saw a Sears commercial last night that announced an “MLK Day Sale.” Well it has been 43 years since Dr. King was assassinated --- time blurs things. And now,
Now it’s official: The New York Times praises “JFK and Mary Meyer” - What are the odds that two writers publish books about the same subject in the same form at the same time? Tiny. But it happened. And it happened because of
Number the Stars - Hanukkah 2021 occurs in the shadow of an alarming expression of ignorance of 20th century history. From the Guardian: Almost two-thirds of young American adults do not know that 6 million
Obama: An Intimate Portrait - This isn’t fair. For sanity’s sake, you try not to think about this guy. For sanity’s sake, if you're like everybody I know and pretty much everybody you know, you
Oldman’s Brave New World of Wine: Pleasure, Value, and Adventure Beyond Wine’s Usual Suspects - The last time I saw Mark Oldman was at a wine tasting he hosted. He was wearing a blazer with wide red piping on the cuffs and lapels --- if
Oldman’s Guide to Outsmarting Wine: 108 Ingenious Shortcuts to Navigate the World of Wine with Confidence and Style - A friend and I were laughing about the ridiculous learning curve of our wine education. Consider the wines we started on --- Boone's Farm Apple, Gallo with a screw top, Almaden
On My Way To Someplace Else - “Charm kills,” Evelyn Waugh said. And he ought to know. His characters swan and dazzle, they’re everywhere you want to be, but when the party ends, they are alone with
On Pluto, Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s - Guest Blogger Gerald Secor Couzens,the author of more than two dozen health books, is the managing editor of The Scientific American Memory Disorders Bulletin, a 45-page print quarterly for people
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - In November of 2016, Timothy Snyder's piece, Him: his election that November came as a surprise, read like a surprise. It sounded like recent history. The rallies. The racism.
One Day - Do I feel stupid. I’ve just devoured a novel that was published almost a year ago. And not in the middle of the night during a media meltdown --- in its
One of These Things First: A Memoir - I’ve known Steven Gaines for so long it seems like we were college roommates. Along the way, I’ve read and admired his journalism and his books, which cover turf as
One Sunday Morning - If Edith Wharton --- the eternal queen of the reading group set --- were alive and writing now, who would she be? Dominick Dunne is the first novelist who comes
