

Tinder Box, James A. Miller
.I’ve read a previous book of his on the history of SNL, so I knew he’d be the right man to turn to on the history of HBO from its...


Chasing History, Carl Bernstein
I was fortunate to get this just-released book from the library as its first reader (doesn’t get much better…those who frequent the...


Team of Rivals, Doris Goodwin
An excellent multiple biography on A. Lincoln’s cabinet that helped shaped what could be the most significant presidency in American...


Between Two Kingdoms, Suleika Jaouad
The author develops leukemia in her early twenties given a 35% chance of survival… the dreams we all have in youth, the life imagined,...


Beginners, Tom Vanderbilt
. It’s a book about beginning again… to learn, and keep learning. It’s not a how to do book as much as a why to do book. It’s less about...


Bewilderment, Richard Powers
An astrobiologist trying to raise his son as a single parent after his wife dies (and their unborn little child). The son is unusual to...


All About Me, Mel Brooks
Growing up poor in Brooklyn to headlining at Radio City Music Hall, Brooks takes us through his entire life and in comedy. He learned...


My Southern Journey, Rick Bragg
Another excellent short story collection from Bragg… he writes of the South in a way beyond cliches, and pulls his writings from...


The Discomfort Zone, Jonathan Franzen
Short stories on his life as a child to an adult that weave back and forth. Two Ponies on the life of Charles Schulz, creator of...


Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
I told you I was getting on a Franzen reading kick and it continues with this long novel on the Berglund family. From the voice of Patty...















