I don’t usually focus on non-fiction, just like I don’t usually mention million-seller books. But Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser, warrants an exception. Part of this posting is sentimental–my wife and I resolved to read more books together, and this is the first we’ve completed–but it is also out of respect for a well-crafted [...]
I recently spent the night at a friend’s house, and since I’m almost always the first to get up in the morning I killed a few hours raiding his library. After browsing the shelves of anthologies, journals, and short story collections–several of which were wayward sons and daughters from my own library–I settled on Story [...]
While riding a commuter train from Chicago to St. Louis earlier today (the train being a new addition to my annual Christmas migration back to my hometown) I read The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson, which claims that creativity, while to some extent random, can be harnessed and directed by recognizing certain qualities about its [...]
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