Former Associated Press Mexico City Bureau Chief Katherine Corcoran‘s IN THE MOUTH OF THE WOLF A Murder, A Cover-up, and The True Cost of Silencing the Press reports some of the facts why 85 Mexican journalists have been killed in […]
Booktalk: Psychologist Marc Schultz’s THE GOOD LIFE. Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
In co-author Marc Schultz’s THE GOOD LIFE what makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? The simple but surprising answer is: relationships. The stronger our relationships, the more likely we are to live happy, satisfying, and […]
Booktalk: Jennifer Herrera’s THE HUNTER
Jennifer Herrera’s debut thriller and first in a series is THE HUNTER. After reckless behavior costs NYPD detective Leigh O’Donnell her job and her marriage, she returns with her four-year-old daughter to her beautiful hometown of Copper Falls, Ohio in […]
Booktalk: Movie star Paul Newman’s memoir–PAUL NEWMAN, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man
My guest is artist and singer Melissa Newman, one of the 5 daughters of actor Paul Newman who died in 2008. She spoke with me about her dad’s posthumous memoir, “PAUL NEWMAN, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man.” It […]
Booktalk: Futurist Ari Wallach’s “LONGPATH. Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs”
LONGPATH by futurist Ari Wallach is about a mindset that looks at the future where new ways aren’t quite here yet and the old ways don’t work anymore. Drawing on history, theology, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and social technologies, Wallach teaches […]
Headlines — December 14, 2022
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Booktalk: Jason Kander’s “Invisible Storm. A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD”
With INVISIBLE STORM, Jason Kander has written the book he himself needed in his darkest moments of PTSD. After Afghanistan, his day job was politics as a rising star in the Democratic party, first in his native Missouri and then […]
Headlines — March 31, 2022
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