Take surrealism. Mix in Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, The Lady from Shanghai, the "Big Blow" of 1935, the Spanish Civil War, the Black Dahlia, and Castro's conquest of Cuba and you have the sweep of this book. Now, mix in noir prose (a hard-bitten style that seems to thriv...

Today’s ALAWB09 Review: Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World by Alex Pentland Product Details * Amazon Sales Rank: #49844 in Books * Published on: 2008-10-31 * Original language: English * Number of items: 1 * Binding: Hardcover * 192 pages Are you tuned into other people's honest signals? Hon...

Today’s ALAWB09 Review: Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally by Patti Digh Product Details * Amazon Sales Rank: #2471 in Books * Published on: 2008-08-26 * Original language: English * Number of items: 1 * Binding: Paperback * 240 pages Patti Digh is the creator o...

It’s my pleasure today to be the post 2 post virtual book tour stop for Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten, authors of the wonderful resource guide, er book, The 100 Best Business Books of All-Time . The premise of this book is simple: find the 100 best business books of all-time, fit them into 12 ca...

Joyful Jubilant Learning, Values, and a Love Affair We who founded Joyful Jubilant Learning (there were 12 of us) shared some core values: You know them collectively as the joy of learning. We also shared a certain love affair that is about to happily tumble into its 4th year of expression: We call ...

"I read my prayers, I read my Zohar, and then I read Gone With The Wind."—Madonna on her bedtime rituals The above quote appears in the freshly released book The Out Traveler: Atlanta by gay BFFs Jordan McAuley and Matt Burkhalter (Alyson Books). I've never been to Atlanta (outside o...

Steven Saylor FansSteven is hard at work on a follow-up novel to Roma....

Proust Was a Neuroscientist is an endlessly entertaining read, containing more passages to underline than not. It is one of those books in which it might be wiser simply to cross through the extra few lines one does not wish to reconsider in subsequent readings. While the author's attitudes and conc...

I received an advanced copy of Frank Viola’s new book in the mail. It’s called From Eternity To Here: Rediscovering The Ageless Purpose of God. The Book is scheduled for a March 1st release. Happily, this book is not focused upon church practices and/or traditions, like Frank’s las...

from Proust Was a Neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer But Whitman also knew that his poems were not simply odes to the material body. This was the mistake that his Victorian critics made; by taking his references to orgasms and organs literally, they missed his true poetic epiphany. The moral of Whitman's v...