Author Eric Weiner lands in the Emergency Room with severe stomach pain. While waiting for his diagnosis, a nurse cryptically asks, “Have you found your […]
Deceptive Dads
Deceptive dad #1 appears in Laurie Sandell’s graphic memoir, The Impostor’s Daughter: A True Memoir. Sandell theorized that her father was in the CIA because […]
Move Over Three Cups of Tea
The recent controversy surrounding Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea does not diminish the humanitarian efforts and idealistic beliefs of others committed to helping children […]
Travel to Bhutan
You may remember Bhutan as the country that prides itself on being more concerned with its citizens’ Gross National Happiness than the GDP, a country that did […]
Escaping Through The Prison Library
“Pimps make the best librarians,” is the first sentence of Avi Steinberg’s Running the Books: The Adventures of An Accidental Prison Librarian. This should pique […]
Literary Smorgasbord for One
In an unusual take on the culinary memoir, this collection of food essays offers a different viewpoint from the many culinary books and food histories on the shelves these […]
Epically readable, Herzog’s American Odyssey
When you think ‘road trip’, you may not have in mind Brad Herzog’s interpretation. In Herzog’s original take on his trip across America, Turn Left at […]
Travelling with The Lunatic Express
The title of Carl Hoffman’s The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes comes from an African railroad […]
From New York to a Harem
One might assume that Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren would be filled with descriptions of unbridled sex and promiscuity. While those […]
