This is a book that you probably don’t want to see. Yet, plenty have, as it has become a New York Times best-seller since its initial distribution in October, 2014. Even today, it remains at #39 on the Amazon.com best-seller list. Marie Kondo wrote The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and… Read More A Tidy-Up Book Cleans Up on the Best-Seller List
The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006). I just finished this wonderful book by Kati Marton. Marton was an NPR and ABC news correspondent, who was widowed twice. Her first marriage was to ABC News anchor Peter Jennings, with whom she had two… Read More Marton’s Great Escape is Worth the Trouble to Find a Copy
I waited all weekend for it, and it finally came on Sunday morning. It was my most vivid Daniel Schorr memory. Though he started his broadcast career when I was two years old, and I knew of his CBS career (especially the moment when he discovered, and read aloud in the midst of a broadcast,… Read More On NPR, Daniel Schorr sang “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”
Daniel Pink, author of Free Agent Nation (which I have read and presented), A Whole New Mind (which I have read) and his new book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (which I am reading, and will present), is speaking in Dallas tonight. I plan to attend, so I thought I would read… Read More A moment or two with Daniel Pink (with a credo from Harrison Ford, and appreciation for conversations facilitated by NPR)
First Friday Book Synopsis 