This book, “How Magicians Think. Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters,” is my love letter to magic,” says Jay, “and it answers the questions people ask me every night after the show.” This book is divided into 52 essays, the […]
Booktalk
Booktalk: UC-Denver Professor Jennifer Reich’s “Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines”
“For over a decade, Jennifer Reich has been studying the phenomenon of vaccine refusal from the perspectives of parents who distrust vaccines and the corporations that make them, as well as the health care providers and policymakers who see them […]
Booktalk: Neurologist Scott Small’s “Forgetting. The Benefits of Not Remembering”
“Small, director of Columbia University’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, puts forgetting in a new light in his eye-opening and reassuring debut. While the standard view in science has been that forgetting is a malfunction of memory, Small makes a case […]
Booktalk: Novelist Hilma Wolitzer’s “Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories”
“From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer–now ninety-one years old and at the top of her game–has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who “raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height.” (Washington Post) […]
Booktalk: Novelist Alex Michaelides’s “The Maidens”
“Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike—particularly by the members of a secret society of […]
Booktalk: Boulder historian Silvia Pettem’s “Cold Case Chronicles. Mysteries, Murders & The Missing”
“Cold Case Chronicles” tells the stories of victims – some missing, some murdered and some with changed identities. All are true, and each are mysterious in their own ways. The cases in this nonfiction narrative date from 1910 through the […]
Booktalk: Novelist and former book editor Zakiya Dalila Harris’s “The Other Black Girl”
“Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just […]
Booktalk: Journalist and film maker Sebastian Junger’s “Freedom”
“The change was immediate. The country opened up west of Harrisburg and suddenly we could drink from streams and build fires without getting caught and sleep pretty much anywhere we wanted. We’d walked the railroad track from Washington to Baltimore […]