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Where’d You Go, Bernadette - We may not like jerks in our real lives, but we sure love them in our entertainment. Remember “Entourage,” with Jeremy Piven as super-agent Ari Gold? Aggressive and obnoxious
Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai - In 1973, Leonard Cohen was 39. Living on Hydra, with Suzanne and their child, he was a cult favorite --- in France, it was said that if a girl had
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto - I was interviewing George Soros as the Dow rapidly shed 300 points and crashed through the 10,000 level. “Is this it?” I asked. Soros shrugged --- a very calm reaction from
Why Hire Jennifer?: How to Use Branding and Uncommon Sense to Get Your First Job, Last Job, and Every Job in Between - Reader Suggestion: “I love getting Head Butler. It's fun, sassy, thought-provoking and leads me to some terrific reads. Alas, I have to take issue with the Graduation Gift missive. While
Why Not? How To Use Everyday Ingenuity To Solve Problems Big And Small - All these years, you've been eating bananas the wrong way. The part you think is the top? Wrong. It's the bottom. You doubt that? Look at
Why Read Moby-Dick? - I’ve never read “Moby-Dick.” For that matter, I’ve only read one plot of “Middlemarch” --- and I was an English major who graduated with high honors. Seems like my resistance to long
William Steig - “Shrek” --- yes, William Steig wrote and illustrated the book that led to the movie that became the marketing. But let's set that mega-hit aside, please, so we can look
Williams-Sonoma Paris - Williams-Sonoma Paris
Window of Exposure - A few years ago, I reviewed Roccie Hill's novel, Three Minutes on Love. It had rock music and rock photography and rock drugs, and it had them down cold. “You
Winesburg, Ohio - Guest Butler Thomas A. Stewart, executive director of the National Center for the Middle Market, has roots five generations deep in the black earth of Illinois, but grew up in
Winning - Winning Jack Welch (with Suzy Welch) No other person in America could write a book
Wisconsin Death Trip - There is an idea in media that we used to be better than this. "We," of course, means white people, and in these dreamy takes, we got along. Yes, if
Wislawa Szymborska: Poems New and Collected - It sounds like a Polish joke: Did you hear about the Polish poet who won the Nobel prize? No joke. In 1996, Wislawa Szymborska (l923-2012) won the most money in the
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul - Guest Butler Joe DePreta is a New York marketing executive and writer on cultural trends. He last wrote about Don Henley. As the 1960s drew to a close, the United
Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives - Until 2013, there was a separate category for female country singers. Now the award is gender-free. And for the first time, all of the nominees were female. You would not
Women in Shadow and Light - Short Takes (Non-Fiction) Runaway American
Wonder - The action movies based on comics are pretty much behind us. This is is the season when Hollywood starts releasing its better movies. Like "Wonder," which stars Julia Roberts, Owen
Would Everybody Please Stop? Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas - Jenny Allen, says Andy Borowitz, is “one of the funniest writers in America.” True. But which America? I may sound like a Grade “A” Elitist here, but I’m going with the Volvo-driving,
Yeah, No. Not Happening.: How I Found Happiness Swearing Off Self-Improvement and Saying F**k It All—and How You Can Too - Karen Karbo must be one of my favorite writers, because I review all of her books. For a very good reason. She writes well-researched biographies with an original point-of-view. And
