I first learned about The Feminine Mistake by Leslie Bennetts when I read a review of it in the Washington Post here. Suitably intrigued, I picked it up and read.
The Feminine Mistake darts around like a minnow and continually circles back to a couple of core points. It is a little Momento-ish since each chapter [...]
Recently, the Queen of England came and went (Carter had some interesting comments here in a post titled “Send the Queen Home”).
Isn’t it totally absurd that any modern country has a heredity ruler (figurehead, whatever)?
Jeremy Paxon (author of On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families) was on the Daily Show with [...]
I hate to cook and will go to great lengths to avoid it. I hate talking or thinking about food or recipes. But, I truly hate cleaning up after cooking, which makes me hate the whole concept of cooking even more. At times, I think that people who say they like to [...]
I mentioned Citizen Vince by Jess Walter here, but it really was in passing and so, just to be clear, the book is outstanding.
It is a well-written mafia thriller chocked full of everything you would expect. It has the really bad criminal, the moderately bad criminal, the smart criminal, several really dumb criminals, John [...]
Craig Newmark was on the Jon Stewart show a couple of nights ago. He was talking about the concept of a distributed, somewhat leaderless organization.
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of the Leaderless Organization by Ori Brafman and Rod Becstrom is not exactly a detailed (i.e. scholarly) review of this concept, but [...]
Milan Kundera just published a work of non-fiction called The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts.
Let me start by making it clear that I love every word Milan Kundera has ever written. I think he is brilliant and his books (since the ones that I have read are translations) are almost enough for me to [...]
Somewhere along the line I picked up Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman (for some reason, I am totally blank on where or when).
I think Klosterman has some sort of rabid fan base and his bio says he is a fellow Minnesotan (on a totally unrelated note, Guy Kawaski wrote a great post about [...]
Apple’s announcement that they would be shipping the iPhone has created a stir all over the Internet, but my favorite post about (tangentially at least) the announcement appeared in the Foreign Policy blog. While lots of people are eagerly awaiting it, some are not. For example, the Quip says to wait for the next generation.
Is [...]
