Hachette Speakers Bureau Author News Archive
Your source for all Hachette author news, events and happenings past and present.
Your source for all Hachette author news, events and happenings past and present.
Forbes: Mitch Joel: How To Reboot Your Business And Your Life
May 21, 2013
Forbes Dan Schawbel, Contributor 5/21/2013
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Mercury News: Myles Knapp: Gritty thrillers by Dana Haynes, Don Mann, Ben Coes, Jeffrey S. Stephens and Kyle Mills
May 09, 2013
Mercury News By Myles Knapp 05/07/2013 I planned this to be a tough-guy, military-guy or at least honorable-CIA-spy-guy column. But Daria Gibron -- the lead character in Dana Haynes' "Ice Cold Kill" -- kept popping up from out of nowhere, treating my arm like it was her own,... Read More
Ed Whitacre featured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Feb 19, 2013
Ed Whitacre Wednesday February 6, 2013 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Ed Whitacre describes the post-bailout atmosphere at General Motors.
Fox News: Consider Not Setting Goals in 2013
Jan 10, 2013
Fox News Dec 21, 2012 By Peter Bregman "Sophia, Daniel," I yelled across the apartment at my seven-year-old and five-year-old who were playing together in their bedroom. "The school bus arrives in 10 minutes. Let's... Read More
Wall Street Journal: Books of the Year 2012
Dec 18, 2012
We asked 50 of our friends to tell us what books they enjoyed in 2012-from Judd Apatow's big plans to Bruce Wagner's addictions. See pages C10 and C11 for the Journal's own Top Ten lists RICHARD FISHER Perhaps the best book about presidential leadership written this year was... Read More
Peter Bregman for The Harvard Business Review: Consider Not Setting Goals in 2013
Dec 14, 2012
Harvard Business Review By Peter Bregman December 14, 2012 "Sophia, Daniel," I yelled across the apartment at my seven-year-old and five-year-old who were playing together in their bedroom. "The school bus arrives in... Read More
Books for a Better Life
Dec 13, 2012
National MS Society The New York City - Southern New York Chapter of the National MS Society is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 17th Annual Books for a Better Life Awards. The winners will be announced during an awards ceremony at The TimesCenter in New York City on Monday,... Read More
Walter Borneman for Fox News: Pearl Harbor's greatest lesson
Dec 11, 2012
Fox News By Walter R. Borneman Published December 07, 2012 Seventy-one years ago today the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a devastating, surprise attack against American naval forces at Pearl Harbor. That moment... Read More
Peter Bregman for FOXBusiness:If You're Too Busy to Meditate, Read This
Dec 05, 2012
By Peter Bregman Published December 03, 2012 FOXBusiness
Tom Wolfe featured on Flavorwire's list of New York’s 100 Most Important Living Writers
Dec 05, 2012
Flavorwire: by Flavorwire Staff. Posted on 11:30 am Wednesday Nov 28, 2012 12. Tom Wolfe Tom Wolfe is a horse of many colors. Sure, maybe not in his wardrobe, but definitely in his legacy: Wolfe is one of the figureheads... Read More
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2012
Nov 28, 2012
Published: November 27, 2012 The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. NONFICTION THE OBAMAS. By Jodi Kantor. (Little, Brown, $29.99.)... Read More
Walter Borneman for Fox News: Five-star leadership for Veterans Day
Nov 19, 2012
Fox News By Walter R. Borneman Published November 12, 2012 American history is replete with tales of conflict between presidents and Congress, but rarely have both institutions been more in agreement than when... Read More
Peter Bregman for The Harvard Business Review: The Upside of Inefficiency
Nov 14, 2012
The Harvard Business Review By Peter Bregman November 9, 2012 In the last few days, I've heard New York City described as a tale of two cities: one city of people who were drastically impacted by Hurricane... Read More
Evan Thomas for The Daily Beast: Governing With a Hidden Hand
Nov 06, 2012
The Daily Beast November 6, 2012 By, Evan Thomas With Iran on the verge of building a nuclear weapon, the next president faces an impossible choice: bombing Iran's nuclear sites (or supporting an Israeli attack)... Read More
Forbes: JJ Ramberg: Entrepreneurship is a Major Issue in the 2012 Election
Oct 17, 2012
Forbes October 16, 2012 By, Dan Schawbel JJ Ramberg is the host of msnbc’s “Your Business,” the only television show dedicated to issues affecting small business owners and co-author of It’s Your Business: 183... Read More
The Today Show: 3 ways running a household is like running a business, and one way it's not
Oct 17, 2012
The Today Show October 17, 2012 By, JJ Ramberg
The Washington Post: Voters’ viewing habits: Top 20 shows among certain groups
Oct 02, 2012
The Washington Post Published: August 29 Just in time for the party conventions comes a study on the TV shows with the highest concentration of each political party’s most loyal voters. Check out the lists below: MILD REPUBLICANS 1. Rules of Engagement (CBS) 2. Sons of... Read More
Peter Bregman for The Harvard Business Review: How to Respond to Negativity
Oct 01, 2012
Harvard Business Review by Peter Bregman September 28, 2012 "I'm getting to the end of my patience," Dan,* the head of sales for a financial services firm, told me. "There is so much opportunity here — the... Read More
New Fox Business Fox News Interview: Working With People You Don’t Like
Sep 21, 2012
Peterbregman.com September 21, 2012 In this week’s Fox Business News Interview Peter Bregman shares why it’s so hard for us to get over our dislikes and I offer some tips for how to overcome your dislike of coworkers and... Read More
Navy SEAL Goes Dark
Sep 17, 2012
The Daily Beast By Eli Lake Sept. 10, 20212 Usually, when an author pens a bestseller and promotes it on 60 Minutes, a major publicity tour ensues and, if he or she is lucky, maybe even a bit of literary fame. But for the former Navy SEAL operator who wrote an unauthorized, first-hand... Read More
VIDEO: Former SEAL reacts to tell-all book
Sep 05, 2012
WAVY.com Sept. 4, 2012 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - A first-hand account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has officially hit shelves in the U.S. It was penned by a former Navy SEAL, who may face federal charges for the information he chose to write about in "No Easy Day." Under the... Read More
Don Mann: What a Former SEAL Never Says About SEAL Team Six
Aug 30, 2012
TIME By Don Mann August 27, 2012 If I ever get a chance to meet the SEAL Team Six operator who allegedly took part in the bin Laden raid and is telling his story in the book No Easy Day (to be released this fall), the first... Read More
A Leader’s Imperative to Cut Through Clutter
Aug 28, 2012
Fox Business News August 16, 2012 Peter Bregman's latest Fox Business News appearance is about the strength of a leader’s conviction, how to cut through clutter, and why Marissa Mayer (Yahoo’s new CEO)... Read More
Why do business leaders lie, when it often backfires?
Aug 28, 2012
Fox Business News August 24, 2012 Peter Bregman's latest Fox Business News interview is about why we lie, whether it works, and what all business leaders should know about sharing information, good and... Read More
Harvard Business Review: The Right Way to Speak to Yourself
Aug 28, 2012
Harvard Business Review August 27, 2012 By, Peter Bregman "Who can tell me what holiday is coming up next week?" Dorit* looked around the room at the circle of six year olds, almost all of whom raised, or rather... Read More
Will ‘No Easy Day’ Book on Bin Laden Raid Break SEALs Code of Silence?
Aug 24, 2012
9 Most Crucial Survival Tips (PHOTOS)
Aug 09, 2012
The Huffington Post By Don Mann August 8, 2012 "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." -Charles Darwin Life can change in an instant. One... Read More
The New York Times: Britain or Bust
Aug 07, 2012
The New York Times By ADAM GOODHEART and PETER MANSEAU August 2, 2012 This week, the question of whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney will occupy the White House has been overshadowed at times by the question of whether Winston Churchill will do so. The dispute over whether a bust... Read More
AMC set to develop 'Area 51' TV series
Aug 07, 2012
Examiner July 27, 2012 By Michael Santo Zombies aren't enough for AMC, apparently. After all, as "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad" wind down, AMC will need to replace them, and the cable network which is the home of "The Walking Dead," will apparently be expanding to aliens, to... Read More
A Typical Day in the Life of a US Navy SEAL
Jul 30, 2012
Huffington Post By Don Mann July 27, 2012 First of all, no two days in the teams are alike. Every day and every week of every year varies according to the current world situation, and the cycle a particular team is in -... Read More
USA Today: Column: Should Holmes' lawyers represent or defend?
Jul 30, 2012
USA Today By Al Neuharth James Holmes, who police said shot and killed 12 people and wounded dozens more in a Colorado movie theater, advances toward trial, his two court-appointed attorneys face a tough question: Should they try to defend him or just represent him? Two... Read More
The New York Post: Series about the workers at ‘Area 51’ will follow Walter White’s final act
Jul 30, 2012
The New York Post July 26, 2012 by Linda Stasi If you are thinking that Armageddon can’t come fast enough now that AMC’s “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men” are nearing their ends, put away the survival gear. There is something to live for, after all. AMC just closed a... Read More
Peter Bregman for the Harvard Business Review: Who Are You Really Mad At?
Jul 24, 2012
Harvard Business Review by Peter Bregman July 23, 2012 A man and two children, a boy about nine and a girl about seven, were walking ahead of me in silence. The boy looked up and said something to his... Read More
The North County Times: BOOK REVIEW: A nice addition to WWII Navy history
Jul 23, 2012
The North County Times July 15, 2012 11:00 am By, Jim Trageser As what will be the final round of first-person memoirs of World War II is being written, a new entry in the "grand epic" style of military history about that topic has also just come out ---- this one with a fresh... Read More
Dr. Mark Hyman for Seattle PI: Counting Calories Is Not Enough
Jul 23, 2012
Seattle PI By, Dr. Mark Hyman 7/16/2012 Most diet programs for weight loss are mainly focused on managing calories. Of course, there is good reason for that. A surplus of calorie intake versus expenditure eventually... Read More
From Jarhead to Bonehead – and Back
Jul 23, 2012
Reviewed by Douglas Bell Special to The Globe and Mail Published Monday, Jul. 09 2012, 6:00 PM EDT Former U.S. marine Anthony Swofford’s 2003 memoir of the first Gulf War, Jarhead, was a monster hit.... Read More
Inside SEAL Team Six: Somalia, 1985
Jul 19, 2012
Command and Posts By: Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo Date: July 17 , 2012 Somalia, 1985 The only easy day was yesterday. —SEAL motto You having fun, Doc?” Lieutenant Haig asked. He called me Doc because... Read More
With your personal finances, do this — not that
Jul 16, 2012
The Washington Post By Michelle Singletary Published: July 7 I rarely think in shades of gray when it comes to personal finance issues. Yet because personal finance is so personal, some experts are leery of telling people, without any equivocation, what to do with their money.... Read More
CNN: When Italian immigrants were 'the other'
Jul 10, 2012
CNN By Ed Falco Tue July 10, 2012 In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where there is opposition to the building of a mosque, protesters are reported to have gathered at the construction site shouting, "Islam is not a religion!" When I... Read More
USA Today reviews Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails by Anthony Swofford
Jun 27, 2012
USA Today By Elysa Gardner, Bob Minzesheimer, Craig Wilson and Lindsay June 21, 2012 Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails By Anthony Swofford Twelve, 276 pp., $26.99 * * * ½ Former Marine sniper Anthony... Read More
Fox News: Leadership lessons from America's Fleet Admirals
Jun 18, 2012
FoxNews.com By Walter R. Borneman Published June 09, 2012 Only four men in American history have been accorded the five-star rank of Fleet Admiral. Interacting with one another over four decades, Chester W.... Read More
Boston.com: The wisdom of John Spooner
Jun 18, 2012
Boston.com By Beth Teitell Published June 09, 2012 “The epitaph that I would want, if I had a stone, which I ain’t gonna have, would be a line from ‘Scaramouche’: ‘He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.’”
SF Gate: Anthony Swofford at Writers With Drinks
Jun 18, 2012
SF Gate By Tony DuShane Anthony Swofford Published June 06, 2012 Anthony Swofford has ruined me. His latest book is a memoir. “Hotels, Hospitals,... Read More
Lavaille Lavette for the Huffington Post: Faithfulness Is Perseverance in Purpose: An Interview With Roland Martin
Jun 06, 2012
Huffington Post June 6, 2012 By, Lavaille Lavette Years ago, when I was an instructional supervisor in the Houston Independent School District, I frequently visited Jack Yates Senior High School in Houston,... Read More
Anthony Swofford on the Epidemic of Military Suicides
Jun 04, 2012
The Daily Beast May 20, 2012 By,Anthony Swofford I was sitting next to Melissa, a call responder at the VA Crisis Hotline in Canandaigua, N.Y., when she looked at me and whispered, ‘He just said he thinks he... Read More
Business Insider: Here's How To Decide Whether To Buy Or Lease A New Car
Jun 04, 2012
Business Insider May 21, 2012, 5:20 PM By, Jack Otter WHY LEASE? The big exception here is if you can deduct the cost of your vehicle as a business expense, you will be able to deduct substantially more if you... Read More
How Tim Cook is changing Apple
Jun 04, 2012
Fortune May 24, 2012, 5:20 PM By, Adam Lashinsky FORTUNE -- In February of this year, a group of investors visited Apple as part of a "bus tour" led by a research analyst for Citibank. The session started with a... Read More
Psychology Today: Influence Yourself With a "Why-Do" List
Jun 04, 2012
Psychology Today May 21, 2012 By, MichaelPantalon It’s Wednesday evening after work and you have a ton of things on your To-Do list. Drop off your son at baseball practice Pick up the cleaning ... Read More
The New York Times: Romney’s Faith, Silent but Deep
Jun 04, 2012
The New York Times By JODI KANTOR Published: May 19, 2012 BELMONT, Mass. — When Mitt Romney embarked on his first political race in 1994, he also slipped into a humble new role in the Mormon congregation he once led.... Read More
The New York Times: Home Is Where They Let You Live
Jun 01, 2012
The New York Times By JASMIN DARZNIK Published: May 26, 2012 Charlottesville, Va. “WHERE is your home?” the consular officer asked me. I was 13 years old. My parents and I had left Iran eight years... Read More
The New York Daily News: 'The Family Corleone,' a prequel to 'Godfather'
Jun 01, 2012
The New York Daily News By, SHERRYL CONNELLY Sunday, May 20, 2012 “The Family Corleone” by Ed Falco is a prequel to “The Godfather” authorized by Mario Puzo’s heirs. Paramount is in quite the snit about it and... Read More
Mark Hyman for The Huffington Post: Can Social Networks Cure Disease? Part I
Jun 01, 2012
The Huffington Post By Mark Hyman Published: May 20, 2012 Last month I gave a talk at TEDMED on how social networks may be an unexpected solution to our heath care crisis. Here's how my talk went: I want to tell... Read More
Forbes: Six Writers Who Know More About Sex Than You Do (So Read Them)
May 30, 2012
Forbes May 28, 2012 By, David DiSalvo You probably think you know a thing or two about sex…and I’m sure you do. But, you probably don’t know more than the handful of writers I’ve chosen to profile below, because these people are hardcore. By that I mean, they really know... Read More
Jasmin Darznik: Home Is Where They Let You Live
May 30, 2012
The New York Times By Jasmin Darznik May 26, 2012 Charlottesville, Va. “WHERE is your home?” the consular officer asked me. I was 13 years old. My parents and I had left Iran eight years earlier, at the... Read More
Hachette lets you read free chapters from upcoming books on Facebook
May 24, 2012
Paid Content By Laura Hazard Owen May 23, 2012 Big-six publisher Hachette Book Group is making free chapters of upcoming books from bestselling authors like James Patterson and Michael Connelly available through a new Facebook app. The app, ChapterShare, lets Hachette publishing... Read More
Prequel lays out life before 'The Godfather'
May 24, 2012
USA Today By Craig Wilson May 7, 2012 BLACKSBURG, Va. – The Falcos seem like such a nice family. Ed is a respected literary novelist, writer of short stories and director of the MFA program in creative writing at... Read More
The New York Times: In Therapy Forever? Enough Already
May 23, 2012
The New York Times By Jonathan Alpert Published: April 21, 2012 New patients tell me things like this all the time. And they tell me how former therapists sat, listened, nodded and offered little or no advice, for... Read More
Marcia Clark on Why Fiction Is Way Stranger Than Truth
May 21, 2012
The Wall Street Journal By Marcia Clark May 11, 2012 Because it has to be. True crime is almost never strange. True crime goes something like this: Joey gets mad at Stewie for poaching his girlfriend. Joey gets drunk and... Read More
A Landmark Ruling in South Africa
May 21, 2012
The New York Times By Peter Godwin May 14, 2012 For the past decade, South Africa has been the preferred vacation spot, shopping destination and international transit hub for members of the tyrannical and murderous... Read More
The Financial Times reviews Guilt by Degrees, by Marcia Clark
May 16, 2012
The Financial Times Review by Christopher Fowler May 5, 2012 Guilt by Degrees, by Marcia Clark If you’re going to read a crime series about a tough-talking attorney working in the underbelly of LA, you could... Read More
Dr. Mark Hyman: The Blood Sugar Solution
May 15, 2012
CBN By The 700 Club HEALTHCARE CRISIS Dr. Mark Hyman says a staggering 1 out of 2 Americans suffers from diabesity—the condition of metabolic imbalance and disease that ranges from mild blood sugar imbalance to... Read More
Mark Hyman: Sugar Babies: The Rise of 'Adult Onset' Diabetes in Children
May 12, 2012
The Huffington Post By Mark Hyman May 12, 2012 Never before in human history have we seen "adult onset" or Type 2 diabetes in children. There has been a more than 1,000 percent increase in Type 2 diabetes in children over... Read More
6 Money Mistakes Everyone Makes (at Least Once)
May 11, 2012
Oprah By Jack Otter May 2, 2012 Money Mistake #1: You Used Your Debit Card to Pay for Gas, an Appliance, a Rental Car, Reserve a Hotel Room or Anything Online Buy a coffee at Starbucks with a debit card and $2.01 will be... Read More
Former O.J. prosecutor trades courtroom for crime fiction
May 11, 2012
CNN By Christian DuChateau Fri May 4, 2012 Marcia Clark knows her way around a courtroom. She spent years as a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles. She became a household name as the lead prosecutor in the O.J.... Read More
Feed Your Mind Wellness Launches New Healthy Living Program Based on Dr. Mark Hyman’s Bestselling Book, The Blood Sugar Solution
May 09, 2012
Trib Local By Winger Marketing Feed Your Mind Wellness, a Highland Park based healthcare consortium specializing in holistic approaches to overall mental and physical well-being, proudly presents “The Blood Sugar Solution Program.” Based on the #1 New York Times... Read More
Jonathan Merritt: Taking the Politics Out of Church
Apr 30, 2012
Publisher's Weekly By G. Jeffrey MacDonald Apr 25, 2012 Jonathan Merritt grew up in the inner sanctum of the religious right. With a father (James Merritt) who held the presidency of the 16-million-member... Read More
With the swimsuits comes the diet advice
Apr 30, 2012
USA Today April 25, 2012 The Blood Sugar Solution By Mark Hyman This is a six-week plan to reverse diabetes and obesity, referred to as diabesity. Hyman is chairman of the institute for Functional Medicine... Read More
My First Job: Nicholas Sparks
Apr 30, 2012
The Wall Street Journal By Alexandra Cheney April 25, 2012 As his seventh book to film adaptation “The Lucky One” hits theaters, Nicholas Sparks recalls a time before he spent his days writing. The author... Read More
Publishers Weekly Review: Hunt the Wolf: A SEAL Team Six Novel
Apr 23, 2012
Publishers Weekly April 23, 2012 SEAL veteran Mann and bestseller Pezzullo (Inside SEAL Team Six) make their fiction debut with this solid military adventure thriller. U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer Tom Crocker leads the... Read More
Boston money manager is full of advice
Apr 17, 2012
The Boston Globe March 16, 2012 By Joseph P. Kahn Who: John D. Spooner What: Spooner, 74, is a Boston financial adviser, best-selling author (“Sex and Money’’), novelist (“Class,’’ “The... Read More
Two Ways to Invest: Think Hard, or Hardly at All
Apr 17, 2012
The New York Times By PAUL B. BROWN April 7, 2012 WHICH kind of investor are you? (This is a question about style, not proficiency, by the way.) Do you comb through everything you can get your hands on, looking for the next big idea before anyone else learns about it? Or do... Read More
Column: Evangelicals seek positive change
Apr 17, 2012
USA Today March 25, 2012 By Tom Krattenmaker Judging from the Republican presidential race and news media story lines, it's the same old, same old in 2012: GOP candidates courting the evangelicals. Analysts offering their latest conjecture about whether "the evangelical... Read More
My latest, greatest find
Mar 29, 2012
March 7, 2012 by Aimee Geraci I know it’s been a while, but I had to share this book with as many people as possible. I don’t know if any of the other Health / Wellness bloggers have brought this to your attention, but either way it’s worth repeating. It’s that important you pick up a... Read More
Review of 'Guilt by Degrees'
Mar 29, 2012
Publishers Weekly 03/19/2012 Near the start of Clark’s exemplary second legal thriller featuring Los Angeles deputy DA Rachel Knight (after 2011’s Guilt by Association), a judge dismisses charges against a man... Read More
Cape Cod salt farm holds family secrets, suspense
Mar 29, 2012
Oklahoman March 18, 2012 By Betty Lytle 'The Gilly Salt Sisters" (Grand Central Publishing, $24.99) by Tiffany Baker is a beautifully written story of family secrets, betrayal, redemption, forgiveness and a... Read More
The DASH Diet fights against high cholesterol, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer and more- as it gets you slim for life!
Mar 29, 2012
Woman's World April 2, 2012 When a panel of nutrition experts from top universities -including Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Johns Hopkins- was recently asked to pick the very best diet for Americans to try, which one got the blue ribbon? A plan that many folks have never even... Read More
Exclusive Book Excerpt from ‘The Obamas’: The Challenges of Parenting in the White House
Mar 19, 2012
By, Jodi Kantor Mar 2, 2012 n my five years of covering Barack and Michelle Obama, I’ve often thought that the president would never have gotten to the White House without his daughters. From early in his political career,... Read More
Dr. Mark Hyman on 'The Blood Sugar Solution'
Mar 19, 2012
EveryDayHealth.com March 5, 2012 By, Mark Hyman, MD What can be done about the global obesity and diabetes epidemics? Mark Hyman, MD, a family physician and leader in the field of functional medicine, tackles that... Read More
Jodi Kantor Discusses First Lady Michelle Obama's Role In The White House (VIDEO)
Mar 19, 2012
The Huffington Post March 5, 2012 By Christina Wilkie WASHINGTON -- Jodi Kantor's recent book,"The Obamas," is a best-selling portrait of the president and first lady's lives in the White House, and one that... Read More
Boston money manager is full of advice
Mar 19, 2012
Who: John D. Spooner What: Spooner, 74, is a Boston financial adviser, best-selling author (“Sex and Money’’), novelist (“Class,’’ “The Foursome’’), and columnist. His new book, “No One Ever Told Us That,’’... Read More
Adam Lashinsky: 3 things any company can learn from Apple
Mar 05, 2012
Fortune By Adam Lashinsky March 5, 2012 FORTUNE -- The latest installment of Applemania debuts this Wednesday, when Apple is expect to unveil another wonders of consumer gadgetry. The Apple-obsessed world expects an... Read More
How Social Networks Control Your Health
Feb 27, 2012
The Huffington Post February 14, 2012 By, Mark Hyman, MD If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church. The power of community to create health is far greater than... Read More
'The Obamas': Jodi Kantor Talks First Family's Challenges
Feb 27, 2012
The Huffington Post February 22, 2012 The Obamas weren't ready for the level of scrutiny the First Family endures, according to New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor, author of the controversial book "The... Read More
Remember When Obama Championed Religious Liberty?
Feb 27, 2012
The American Thinker By, Jack Cashill February 22, 2012 Say what one will about vice-president Joe Biden, but in the internal debate over the White House's contraception mandate, he argued that the real issue in play was not contraceptives, sterilization, or... Read More
VIDEO | Z Speaker Series: Adam Lashinsky, Author of “Inside Apple” Book
Feb 27, 2012
Zillow Talk February 16, 2012 By, Erika Riggs There are companies that are relatively transparent and then there are some that are notoriously closed off. By far, one of the most secretive is Apple. Fortune senior editor
10 Powerful Management Insights from Apple, P&G, Yum Brands and Gilt Groupe
Feb 27, 2012
Entrepreneur.com BY Carol Tice February 20, 2012 My book pile has begun to bulge with new "how we did it" books by managers from established, brand-name corporations -- and one newer disruptive startup, the luxury-fashion, flash-sale ecommerce hit Gilt Groupe. So often these... Read More
The Science of Kissing
Feb 27, 2012
CNN By Sheril Kirshenbaum February 14, 2012 There's nothing like a romantic kiss. It is the climax of every great love story and an experience that has motivated poets and musicians for thousands of years.... Read More
Mary Ellen Geist for The Washington Times Glen Campbell: Alzheimer’s can’t silence the music
Feb 24, 2012
The Washington Times February 20, 2012 By, Mary Ellen Geist Glen Campbell walked onstage at the Grammys earlier this month looking confident, but not exactly like the Glen Campbell I had seen performing before.... Read More
The DASH Diet Action Plan
Feb 23, 2012
Today's Diet and Nutrition February 16, 2012 The DASH Diet Action Plan Recently chosen by U.S. News & World Report as the best diet, the healthiest diet, and the best diabetes diet, the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet, sponsored by the... Read More
Heartbreaking work of staggering Showalter
Feb 13, 2012
The Brooklyn Paper February 3, 2012 By Dan MacLeod This funnyman’s memoir isn’t about being funny … it’s about writing a memoir. Brooklyn comedy titan Michael Showalter, who is the brains behind “Wet... Read More
Jodi Kantor: Journalist and Obama watcher
Feb 13, 2012
The Boston Sunday Globe February 5, 2012 By, AMY SUTHERLAND Not much seems to scare Jodi Kantor. At the ripe age old age of 27 she became the editor of The New York Times arts and leisure section. She jumped... Read More
One on One: Adam Lashinsky, Author of ‘Inside Apple'
Feb 13, 2012
The New York Times By Nick Wingfield February 9, 2012 Adam Lashinsky is the author of “Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired — and Secretive — Company Really Works,” a book published last month. While... Read More
Author explains the science of kissing
Feb 13, 2012
The Chicago Sun Times February 12, 2012 By Sophia Ahmad With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, kissing may be a hot topic for many. For the curious, Sheril Kirshenbaum, the 31-year-old author of The... Read More
Book Burners
Feb 06, 2012
New York Post By Gabriel Sherman Jan 22, 2012 With total partisan war (still) consuming Washington, the Obama White House spent the last two weeks blasting away at an unlikely antagonist: 36-year-old New York Times reporter
'Inside Apple,' by Adam Lashinsky: review
Feb 06, 2012
Casey Newton, Chronicle Staff Writer The San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, January 22, 2012 By Casey Newton Not long ago, talking with an acquaintance who works at Apple, I asked about the company's famous culture of saying no. How does it feel, I asked, to present idea... Read More
'Beautiful Creatures' movie adaptation finally underway, with Viola Davis attached
Feb 06, 2012
Entertainment Weekly By, by Adam B. Vary February 2, 2012 In the fall of 2009, writer-director Richard LaGravenese (P.S. I Love You) signed on to adapt Beautiful Creatures, the first of three novels by Kami... Read More
Partners in Love and the Presidency
Jan 26, 2012
The New York Times January 8, 2012 By CONNIE SCHULTZ On the evening of Jan. 12 last year, Michelle Obama sat in the front row of a packed memorial service and fixed her eyes on her husband as he took the stage. The Obamas were at the University of Arizona in Tucson to honor... Read More
Apple Changes Locks And Puts Up Extra Doors To Keep Its Projects Secret From Employees
Jan 26, 2012
Business Insider January 18, 2012 By, Matt Rosoff Apple is so paranoid about product leaks, it once changed the locks on a floor and added extra doors to hide a project from employees who didn't need to know about it. A team of carpenters regularly travels the campus,... Read More
'Buy High Sell Higher' - A Review Of Joe Terranova's Cutting-Edge New Book And His 2012 Outlook
Jan 09, 2012
Seeking Alpha January 6, 2011 Joe Terranova is Chief Market Strategist for Virtus Investment Partners and a lead panelist for CNBC's Fast Money program. Virtus Investment Partners is a Hartford based asset... Read More
Companies are lying low at a time when they should focus on winning says Robert Kriegel.
Jan 06, 2012
THE ECONOMIC TIMES www.economictimes.com Dec 30, 2011 The most common response in these uncertain economic times are to play it safe and don't take any risks. Most companies these days are hunkering down into bunkers and cutting back on everything; especially those areas that... Read More
The Real Legacy of Nelson Mandela
Dec 19, 2011
The Wall Street Journal By Peter Godwin Dec. 10, 2011 A frail Nelson Mandela, now 93, has gone back to Qunu, his ancestral home in rural Transkei, and his handlers have announced his withdrawal from public view. Even... Read More
Inspiration to make a difference
Dec 19, 2011
Book Page By Linda Leaming Regina Brett, author of the New York Times bestseller God Never Blinks, now has a wonderful new collection of short essays, Be the Miracle. There’s a wealth of inspirational stories here with titles... Read More
Isaacson: Jobs biography could expand
Dec 16, 2011
CNN Money By Richard Nieva Dec. 15, 2011 FORTUNE -- Liked Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs? There may be more to come. At an event in San Francisco hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California, Isaacson shared a number of gems about the two years he spent with Jobs writing the... Read More
The Best Business Books of 2011
Dec 13, 2011
Market Place December 12, 2011 by Kai Ryssdal Kai Ryssdal: We get, on average every year, a bajillion books in the mail. Some we read and do interviews about. Most -- just because of the numbers -- we don't. So every year we ask some of our regular Marketplace... Read More
The Real China Threat
Dec 09, 2011
TIME By, Steven Leeb December 4, 2011 Ordinary Americans and policymakers in Washington have plenty to worry about these days: unemployment, housing, deficits and debt, not to mention terrorism, wars and myriad foreign... Read More
How to Ask for More Money at Work
Dec 07, 2011
Time By Josh Sanburn December 7, 2011 Now may not be the right time to ask for a raise. But it’s a good time to lay the groundwork. The November jobs picture was a mixed one. While unemployment in the U.S. dipped to 8.6%, the lowest rate in more than two years, wages also... Read More
Inside Seal Team Six by Don Mann Excerpt
Dec 04, 2011
The Daily Beast By Don Mann Dec. 4, 2011 The more sweat and tears you put into the training, the less blood you’ll shed in time of war. —Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL motto Have you ever heard of something called... Read More
Distracted? It’s Time to Hit the Reset Button
Nov 23, 2011
The New York Times November 19, 2011 By EILENE ZIMMERMAN Q. You enjoy being fully immersed in your work but find yourself becoming distracted by e-mail, the Internet and other things throughout the day. Why do you lose focus so easily? A. People often lose their concentration... Read More
Ike saw through the generals' spending games
Nov 18, 2011
Washington Examiner November 12, 2011 By: Evan Thomas As the Obama administration and Congress wrestle with federal spending in the year ahead, it will be argued -- over and over again -- that you cannot cut defense... Read More
Author Nicolas Sparks On The Essential Elements Of A Great Tearjerker Novel
Nov 18, 2011
The Huffington Post November 9, 2011 Tissues and red puffy eyes are all signs that you've been on the emotional roller-coaster that is a Nicholas Sparks novel. Sparks is well known for his tearjerking tales and... Read More
BlackBerry's business problem
Nov 18, 2011
CNN Money November 10, 2011 By Adam Lashinsky FORTUNE -- Addictions are tough to break, yet Research in Motion seems to be doing whatever it can to help users cast aside their CrackBerrys once and for all. Consider... Read More
18 Minutes to Tame Your Busy Hours
Nov 08, 2011
Globe and Mail By, Harvey Schachter November 3, 2011 Peter Bregman loves buffets. And like many of us, when the New York-based consultant gets there, he tastes everything in sight. He inevitably leaves the buffet... Read More
Part I: Dealing With Your Teen’s Relapse from Drug and Alcohol Addiction
Nov 04, 2011
Drugfree.org By, Michael V. Pantalon, PhD November 2, 2011 A “Relapse” Scenario Imagine your 17-year-old son has been doing really well — staying away from alcohol and pot for the past 6... Read More
"Red Alert" Tells You How To Invest Like China
Nov 04, 2011
Forbes November 1, 2011 By, Robert Lenzner As China strives to become the globe’s Number One economic power, it has become the buyer of first resort in cement(53%), iron ore(47.7%), coal(46.9), steel(45.4%), lead(44.6%),zinc(41.3%, aluminum(40.6%) nickel(36.3%) and... Read More
12 More Ways Successful Entrepreneurs Stay Productive and Overcome Pitfalls
Nov 04, 2011
Psychcentral.com By Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. November 2, 2011 When you’re an entrepreneur, who inevitably wears many hats, managing your time can get tricky—especially when it’s tempting to work all day to grow your business. But being successful doesn’t mean being a... Read More
Speakers Worth Catching - 1: Mitch Joel
Oct 18, 2011
Forbes By, Nick Morgan
I’m going to start a blog series on current speakers worth watching and begin with Mitch Joel, author of the bestselling Six Pixels of Separation (what a great title!), prolific blogger... Read More
Briefly Noted: Alien Nation
Oct 07, 2011
Reason By Mike Riggs October, 2011 Annie Jacobsen’s new book on Area 51, a secret government testing facility in Nevada, details the development of the ultra-high-flying U2 spy plane program and various nuclear warhead tests.... Read More
Does Being Influential Make You Healthier & Happier?
Oct 07, 2011
Psychology Today By Michael Pantalon Ph.D. Oct. 5, 2011 In the movie "Pursuit of Happyness," Will Smith plays Chris Gardner, a medical equipment salesman who is way down on his luck but who has his heart set on an internship... Read More
Stacy Schiff, author of 'Cleopatra: A Life,' on the perfect biography subject
Oct 07, 2011
Chicago Tribune By Elizabeth Taylor Oct. 5, 2011 Heartbroken by my failure to hear biographer Stacy Schiff speak when she was in Chicago last week, I lassoed her by email to discuss one of my favorite subjects: biography. Q:... Read More
Focusing on your work is more important than multitasking
Oct 07, 2011
USA Today By Anita Bruzzese Oct 5, 2011 If you're reading this on your iPad while on a conference call, eating a sandwich and periodically checking your email on your laptop, stop it. By such multitasking, you're likely to miss something important. Did you just hear the... Read More
How to get your foot in the door
Sep 30, 2011
Chicago Tribune By Wendy Donahue Sept 25, 2011 Desperate to get your kid educated, your appeal granted, your screenplay read? There are so many gatekeepers in life, so few open gates. Among the barriers to entry is the receptionist. Despite that title, when you ask, you rarely... Read More
Book review: 'Arguably' by Christopher Hitchens
Sep 29, 2011
The Los Angeles Times By Nick Owchar Sept. 28, 2011 Christopher Hitchens' writings on politics and his public face on a variety of TV programs and in other forums have earned him manifold tags, not always favorable... Read More
Want to Succeed? Stop Trying So Hard
Sep 26, 2011
Wall Street Journal By Peter Bregman Sept 23, 2011 "What's eight times eight?" I asked Isabelle, my 9-year-old daughter who was practicing her times tables. Her eyes glazed over. We were on a plane and had about... Read More
Fast Company: How To Hire Your Organization's Capt. Sullenberger
Sep 22, 2011
Fast Company September 22, 2011 By, Peter Bregman Captain Greg Davis is an outstanding fishing guide. I went out with him early one morning off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, and came back a few hours later with several... Read More
What to watch, listen to and read this month
Sep 20, 2011
USA Today Sept 5, 2011 What can you do in 18 minutes? That's the amount of time Harvard Business Review columnist Peter Bregman suggests in his new book that it takes out of a nine-hour workday to create and stick to... Read More
A Contrarian Since Childhood
Sep 20, 2011
New York Times By Dwight Garner Sept 13, 2011 In 2001 Christopher Hitchens published a slim, engaging how-to book titled “Letters to a Young Contrarian.” Among its most consequential advice was this: “The noble title of ‘dissident’ must be earned rather than claimed; it... Read More
'Arguably: Essays,' By Christopher Hitchens
Sep 20, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle By Phillip Lopate Sept 4, 2011 Christopher Hitchens occupies a unique position in American letters. A transplanted Englishman living in Washington, D.C., his solid Oxbridge education and... Read More
Dan Senor: Why Obama Is Losing the Jewish Vote
Sep 14, 2011
Wall Street Journal By Dan Senor Sept 14, 2011 New York's special congressional election on Tuesday was the first electoral outcome directly affected by President Obama's Israel policy. Democrats were forced to... Read More
The Art of Influence
Sep 09, 2011
Babies and psychopaths have one thing in common: They're excellent at getting what they want. Many of us could learn a thing or two from these creatures, tantrums and dirty tactics notwithstanding. That's not to say that, like these ingrates, we should feel entitled to everything we want.... Read More
Entertainment Industry Honors Navy Psychologist For Excellence in Combat Operational Stress Control
Sep 07, 2011
From U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Public Affairs HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (NNS) -- A Navy medical professional received the Voice Award Aug. 24 at Paramount Studios for her efforts in building awareness about the impact of trauma on service members and their families.
Book Review: Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military
Sep 07, 2011
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base is an interesting read, as it provides an abundant history of the invention of nuclear weapons and spy planes, most of which took place at a military base that technically never existed: Area 51 in Nevada.
“Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker,” by Kevin Mitnick with William L. Simon
Sep 07, 2011
Washington Post By Jeffrey Rosen Sept 1, 2011 The revelation that reporters for Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct tabloid the News of the World hacked into the phones and voicemail boxes of British politicians and members of the royal family, as well as the parents of a murder victim and... Read More
HERO SEEKS VENGEANCE
Sep 07, 2011
Fredricksburg.com By Chelyen Davis August 28, 2011 When fans of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child last saw Special Agent Pendergast in "Fever Dream," he had learned his wife's death was not an accident but murder, and was... Read More
Declarations of independence
Sep 07, 2011
Boston Globe By Michael Washburn Aug 28, 2011 Susan Sontag famously wrote that intelligence was “really just a kind of taste: taste in ideas.’’ Over the past decade, Christopher Hitchens has proven... Read More
Michael Moore, Triumphant?
Sep 07, 2011
The Daily Beast By Tony Dokoupil Sept 5, 2011 To read Michael Moore’s new memoir, Here Comes Trouble, is to realize that the lefty filmmaker has—for all his opposition to it—had a very good war. Before 9/11 and the... Read More
Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life
Aug 25, 2011
Publishers Weekly August 22, 2011 Filmmaker and political activist Moore's outstanding memoir opens with an account of the infamous Oscar acceptance speech in which he proclaimed "Shame on you!" to President George W. Bush,... Read More
A Hacker Tells All
Aug 18, 2011
New York Times By J.D. Biersdorfer August 12, 2011 Considering the fact that Windows 95 hadn’t even been released when federal agents finally caught up with the computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, one might assume his new... Read More
Announcing the Recipients of the 2011 PEN Literary Awards
Aug 18, 2011
We are pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of the 2011 PEN Awards, the most comprehensive literary awards program in the country. Next year will mark PEN’s 90th anniversary. For more than 50 of those years, PEN’s Literary Awards program has honored many of the most outstanding voices... Read More
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child by the numbers
Aug 10, 2011
USA Today By Carol Memmott July 29, 2011 Do the math: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are a prolific pair 16. Novels written as Preston & Child; the 17th, Gideon's Corpse, will be published in January 4. Solo novels... Read More
Piers Morgan Tonight: Exclusive with Sebastian Junger.
Aug 10, 2011
CNN Piers Morgan Tonight (Aug 8, 2011) In case you missed it, watch Sebasitan Junger on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight.
Jeffrey Hayzlett is Named Celebrity Editor of Social Media's First Magazines
Aug 01, 2011
For Immediate Release Media Contact: Danny Astoria Ericho Communications (917) 965-5790 danny@erichopr.com Read Full Article Here SOCIAL MEDIA'S FIRST MAGAZINES SET TO DEBUT IN THE FALL WITH HIGHEST BUSINESS CIRCULATION IN... Read More
Why Would Anyone Miss War?
Jul 19, 2011
The New York Times By Sebastian Junger July 16, 2011 Several years ago I spent time with a platoon of Army infantry at a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan, and after the deployment I was surprised that only one of the soldiers chose to leave the military at the end of his... Read More
Tips for making the right investment decisions
Jul 12, 2011
The Salt Lake Tribune by Dawn House Daniel Goldie, co-author of "The Investment Answer, Learn to Manage Your Money & Protect Your Financial Future," says the right key decisions can help stack investment odds in your favor. Should... Read More
Wimbledon Launched ‘Investment Answer’ Author to Money Management Success
Jun 27, 2011
Bloomberg by Rob Gloster - Jun 27, 2011 Dan Goldie’s success at Wimbledon demanded aggressive tennis. His transition to financial adviser required a mental change that championed a different approach to investing. Goldie employed a serve-and-volley game to defeat Jimmy Connors en route to... Read More
Is Family/Career Balance a Fool’s Errand For Female Physicians?
Jun 27, 2011
Wall Street Journal Health Blog By Katherine Hobson June 13, 2011 An op-ed published by the New York Times over the weekend is, as one critic says, stirring up “the mommy wars, medical edition.” In the piece, anesthesiologist Karen S. Sibert argues that the looming physician shortage... Read More
A Timely E. Coli Story, Spun as a Legal Thriller
Jun 27, 2011
The New York Times By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D. Published: June 27, 2011 If little mental woodpeckers of guilt begin to hammer away every time you reach for a John Grisham novel (shouldn’t you be reading something factual and relevant to current events?), your perfect beach book has arrived. With... Read More
New York Times Reviews Annie Jacobsen's Area 51
Jun 02, 2011
A Military Post’s Secrets: Espionage, Not Aliens By JANET MASLIN Published: May 15, 2011 Read Full Article Here At the start of “Area 51,” Annie Jacobsen’s... Read More
Pete Hamill’s Tabloid Thriller: New York Times Review
Jun 02, 2011
New York Times Pete Hamill’s Tabloid Thriller By JOHN DARNTON Published: May 20, 2011 Read Full Article Here Granted, as silver linings go this may be scant... Read More
Peter Godwin, Author of The Fear, Discusses the Hope for Democracy in Zimbabwe for The New York Times
Apr 28, 2011
The New York Times Making Mugabe Laugh By PETER GODWIN, Op-Ed Contributor Published: April 18, 2011 Read Full Article Here BARELY was Laurent Gbagbo, wearing a sweat-damp white tank top and a... Read More
Buffalo News Reviews Pete Hamill's Latest Novel, Tabloid City
Apr 28, 2011
‘Tabloid City’ is a tangled tale By Lee Coppola NEWS BOOK REVIEWER Published:April 24, 2011, 12:00 AM Read Full Article Here Pete Hamill comes from that school of gifted journalists who... Read More
The Wall Street Journal Reviews Peter Godwin’s The Fear
Apr 12, 2011
The Wall Street Journal The Triumph of Fear There's often little to distinguish victim and perpetrator in Africa's new hearts of darkness By DOUGLAS ROGERS APRIL 2, 2011
Christopher Hitchens Writes for Slate on Africa's Worst Dictator
Apr 12, 2011
Slate Africa's Worst Dictator How has Robert Mugabe been able to rule Zimbabwe for so long? By Christopher Hitchens Monday, April 11, 2011, at 10:35 AM ET Read Full Article Here Robert Mugabe. Click image to expand.Robert... Read More
The Observer’s "Very Short List" features Peter Godwin’s The Fear
Mar 18, 2011
The Observer MARCH 8, 2011 Death of a nation NONFICTION Read Full Article Here Peter Godwin has been a war correspondent, a filmmaker, and a human-rights lawyer; he is also the author of two remarkable... Read More
The Jewish Daily Interviews Mr. Funny Pants Author, Michael Showalter
Mar 18, 2011
The Jewish Daily Yid Lit: Michael Showalter By Allison Gaudet Yarrow Published March 08, 2011 Read Full Article Here From the Borscht Belt to poop jokes, Jewish comedy comes in many forms, and Michael Showalter has a little of both... Read More
Charla Krupp for The Huffington Post: How Fashion Fails Real Women
Mar 18, 2011
The Huffington Post By Charla Krupp Author, 'How Not to Look Old' Posted: March 14, 2011 11:11 AM Shopping for My Mom: How Fashion Fails Real Women Read Full Article Here In... Read More
Jasmin Darznik's The Good Daughter Receives a Strong Review from Ms. Magazine
Mar 02, 2011
Sunday, February 20th, 2011 The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life by Jasmin Darznik Pre-Modern Family A review by Persis Karim Read Full Article Here Using her mother's recollections, culled from... Read More
Salon Interviews Stand-Up Comic & Mr. Funny Pants Author, Michael Showalter
Mar 02, 2011
"Mr. Funny Pants": Michael Showalter explains comedy memoirs By Jacob Sugarman Tuesday, Feb 22, 2011 17:11 ET Read Full Article Here Over the past few years, the New York Times... Read More
Best-Selling Author Diana Kirschner Lends Her Advice on Life, Love and Relationships In Marie Claire
Feb 22, 2011
Marie Claire Do You Have Engagement Rage? For some women, getting a marriage proposal means losing their single friends. By Sara Clemence Read Full Article Here After I got engaged in... Read More
Angelina Jolie Slated to Play Cleopatra in the Movie Adaptaion of Stacy Schiff's Latest Book
Feb 01, 2011
Entertainment Weekly All Hail the New Cleopatra! The Egyptian Queen (famously played by Elizabeth Taylor) may head back to the big screen starring Angelina Jolie. By Chris Nashawaty February 11, 2011 Read Full... Read More
NPR Reviews Sheril Kirshenbaum's The Science of Kissing
Jan 27, 2011
NPR A Science of the Kiss by Adam Frank January 24, 2011 Read Full Article Here Why do we kiss? God knows it feels good but is there more to it than that? Is there a biological, evolutionary basis for... Read More
Vogue Magazine Names Jasmin Darznik’s The Good Daughter Among Season's Best Memoirs
Jan 11, 2011
Books: Expand Your Horizons by Megan O'Grady Books: Memoirs Read Full Article Here The season’s most captivating memoirs will take you far and away A 640-acre Wyoming nature preserve became the site of... Read More
The Baltimore City Paper Reviews Sheril Kirshenbaum's The Science of Kissing
Jan 11, 2011
Sheril Kirshenbaum: The Science of Kissing A science writer pens a telling book about kissing By Bret McCabe January 5, 2011 Watch Video Here The year is very young, but author... Read More
The New York Times Reviews Amy Sedaris' Quirky Craft Book, Simple Times
Dec 15, 2010
Holiday Books: Crafts By J. D. BIERSDORFER Published: December 3, 2010 Read Full Article Here To call the work of Amy Sedaris “quirky” is too easy — it’s also a vast understatement. Known in some circles... Read More
Cleopatra: A Life: The New York Post Reviews Stacy Schiff's Best-Selling Biography
Dec 15, 2010
Cleopatra: A life Separating myth from fact for the pyramid schemer By SUSANNAH CAHALAN Last Updated: 5:14 AM, December 5, 2010 Read Full Article Here Queen Cleopatra was so overcome by... Read More
The Fate of File Sharing, Marketing Guru Mitch Joel Reports
Nov 18, 2010
Read Full Article Here By Mitch Joel, Vancouver Sun November 11, 2010 The music industry cheered a very small (and mostly unheard) victory a few weeks ago when a court ruling... Read More
How Do Brands Work? Business Guru Harry Beckwith Shares his Expertise
Nov 15, 2010
Read Full Article Here How Do Brands Work? The Pepsi Challenge demonstrated the remarkable power of a brand: Coke For years, advocates of branding have battled... Read More
A Society Still Under Cleopatra's Spell, Stacy Schiff Writes for the Wall Street Journal
Oct 26, 2010
OCTOBER 23, 2010 Still Under Cleopatra's Spell The Romans were the first, but hardly the last, to be unnerved by female ambition, authority and allure By STACY SCHIFF How is it possible that Cleopatra continues to enchant, 2,000 years after her sensational death? It helps that, with... Read More
Boston Globe Interviews Biblical Scholar, Michael Coogan
Oct 18, 2010
Read Full Article Here Q&A Sex and the scriptures What the Bible actually says By Lisa Wangsness October 3, 2010 In 2006, the biblical scholar Michael Coogan watched the debate over... Read More
Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographer, Offers An Honest Look at History's Most Iconic Female Leader, Cleopatra
Oct 18, 2010
Read Full Article Here Will the Real Cleopatra Please Stand Up? According to Hollywood, she was model-gorgeous, violet-eyed, and dripping in gold. But what did Cleopatra actually look like? Stacy Schiff, a Pulitzer... Read More
A Look Inside ESPN's Merril Hoge's Life in Fort Thomas, Kentucky
Sep 29, 2010
Read Full Article Here Why Does ESPN’s Merril Hoge Live Here? Posted by jkiesewetter September 23rd, 2010, 9:10 am It’s a question I’ve had for years…. Why does ESPN analyst Merril... Read More
Management Guru Sam Culbert Writes on Improving the Workplace Environment
Sep 24, 2010
Read Full Article Here September/October 2010 WHY CORPORATE LEADERS BLOCK THE CANDOR THEY SAY THEY WANT by Samuel A. Culbert Samuel A. Culbert is Professor, UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is the... Read More
Christopher Hitchens Writes For Slate On Religious Faith in Society
Sep 15, 2010
Read Full Article Here Free Exercise of Religion? No, Thanks. The taming and domestication of religious faith is one of the unceasing chores of civilization. By Christopher Hitchens Monday, Sept. 6, 2010, at 11:39 AM ET Former Republican... Read More
Nancy Trejos, Author of Hot Broke Messes, Shares Her Money Saving Advice with CNN
Aug 30, 2010
Read Full Article Here Young and strapped for cash By Jennifer Icklan, producer August 20, 2010: 4:58 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- If you're in your 20s and 30s and feel cash-strapped, you're... Read More
Jonathan Merritt, Author of Green Like God, Featured in USA Today
Aug 23, 2010
Read Full Article Here What if the end isn't near? In our ever-shrinking world, the tentacles of religion touch everything from governmental policy to individual morality to our basic social constructs.... Read More
Po Bronson & Ashley Merrymen for Newsweek: The Decline of Creativity
Jul 20, 2010
Read Full Article Here Forget Brainstorming What you think you know about fostering creativity is wrong. A look at what really works. Brainstorming in a group became popular in 1953 with the publication of a... Read More
Jonathan Merritt For CNN Belief Blog: How should Christians respond to the oil spill?
Jun 21, 2010
Read Full Article Here By Jonathan Merritt, Special to CNN What was your first response when you got news that a catastrophic explosion had caused a leak at a BP oil rig? Did you... Read More
Kate Braestrup, author of Marriage and Other Acts of Charity, in Guideposts magazine, on stands now!
Jun 15, 2010
Read Full Article Here No News. Just Joy. By Kate Braestrup When I was a new widow, my kindly cousin Tommy, wishing to cheer me up, decided to take me to see the live broadcast of Saturday Night Live in New... Read More
Politicians Behind a Push to Fight: Ventura County Star Reviews Evan Thomas' The War Lovers
Jun 15, 2010
Read Full Article Here By James McGrath Morris Washington Post Writers Group Saturday, June 12, 2010 More than a century before a recent president who had never seen combat led the U.S. into... Read More
MarieClaire.com Interviews Hot (Broke) Messes Author, Nancy Trejos
Jun 01, 2010
Read Full Article Here The Costs of Dating May 24, 2010 2:25 PM by Maura Kelly Lovelies: Ah, money and dating: the question of who pays for what (and how much) can be a contentious and... Read More
How to Never Look Fat Again Author, Charla Krupp, For Workchic.com: Look Five Pounds Thinner!
Jun 01, 2010
Read Full Article Here Makeover Manual - Work it, Girl: Look Five Pounds Thinner! May 20, 2010 | From: Workchic.com Who can't stand... Read More
The Financial Times Book Review: Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens
May 25, 2010
Read Full Article Here Hitch-22 Review by Edward Luce Published: May 21 2010 23:23 | Last updated: May 21 2010 23:23 There came a point in Christopher Hitchens’ memoir when this reviewer nearly... Read More
Po Bronson's What Should I Do With My Life?: Books for Graduates Setting Out on That Next Big Adventure
May 25, 2010
Read Full Article Here By Vickie Elmer Sunday, May 23, 2010 After ceremonies called commencement, graduates must start something new, perhaps a journey toward a career or on to further... Read More
Southern Baptist Leader, Jonathan Merritt, Urges Christians to Go Green for God
May 10, 2010
Read Full Article Here By Bob Allen Wednesday, April 28, 2010 DULUTH, Ga. (ABP) -- Jonathan Merritt says he was both disappointed and pleasantly surprised by the response he received after organizing several hundred Southern... Read More
Evan Thomas, author of The War Lovers, On Why Men Love War
May 06, 2010
Read Full Article Here Book Excerpt: ‘The War Lovers’ by Evan Thomas Complete War Stories coverage By Evan Thomas | NEWSWEEK Published Apr 30, 2010 From the magazine issue dated May 10, 2010 Theodore Roosevelt wanted a war, and almost... Read More
Details Magazine Interviews Sebastian Junger
Apr 30, 2010
Read Full Article Here Sebastian Junger The Perfect Storm author discusses military life in Afghanistan, why his new book War is his most personal yet,... Read More
Get Rid of Performance Reviews, Author Says
Apr 27, 2010
Read Full Article Here Apr 20, 4:12 PM EDT Get rid of performance reviews, author says By ERIN CONROY AP Business Writer PERFORMANCE PREVIEW:... Read More
The Sweet Smell of Gunpowder
Apr 27, 2010
Read Full Article Here The Sweet Smell of Gunpowder Apr 22nd 2010 From The Economist print edition Whoopee! Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders had the country behind them The War... Read More
Experts Tell How to Raise a Better Kid Instead of a Better Liar
Apr 23, 2010
Read Full Article Here Experts tell how to raise an honest kid instead of a better liar By Mari-Jane Williams Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 22, 2010 Your child's first... Read More
How to Escape From Debt
Apr 19, 2010
Read Full Article Here How to Escape From Debt By Kimberly Palmer Posted: April 19, 2010 As a personal finance reporter for The Washington Post, Nancy Trejos spent her... Read More
Throw Out 50 Things This Spring . . . And You Just Might Feel Reborn
Apr 16, 2010
Read Full Article Here By Michelle Singletary Sunday, April 4, 2010 THROW OUT FIFTY THINGS Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life by Gail Blanke Springboard Press. 304 pp.... Read More
Charla Krupp: Fat Day Fixes You’ve Got to Try
Apr 05, 2010
By Jessica Knoll | Cosmopolitan Most of the time, you know you look smokin’. But even the most confident chicks can be sidelined by the occasional fat day. Charla Krupp, style expert and author of the new book, How to Never Look Fat Again, shares her secret weapons for days when you... Read More
Charla Krupp: Look thinner in 'no-fat' clothing
Apr 05, 2010
By Linda Petty | CNN (CNN) -- Mirror, mirror on the wall -- tell me my body faults, one and all. That's what a lot of women ask their mirrors to tell them, at least until they get a boyfriend or a husband they can torture with the dreaded question, "Does this dress (or blouse, pair of... Read More
Ashley Merryman, Co-Author of Nurturshock, Chosen for Vital Speech of the Week
Mar 19, 2010
Vital Speech of the Week On Parenting: Surprising research, and what to do with it "I'd send you a prepared or as delivered remarks, if I could," Ashley Merryman writes us about her Oct. 23 speech, "but there aren't any—I ad-libbed it." Watch, and marvel - follow this link to see... Read More
Charla Krupp Profiled in TIME Magazine: How to Never Look Fat Again — Without Dieting
Mar 15, 2010
By: Andrea Sachs | Time Magazine Do you ever stare in the mirror and wince, certain that you look too heavy? Author Charla Krupp feels your pain. Even though she's a svelte style expert who has appeared on dozens of TV shows and written for top fashion magazines such as... Read More
Bill Sears' New Book Featured in Vogue
Feb 04, 2010
Health: Book Sense By: Megan Conway | Vogue When you consider the obstacles littering the path between you and your New Year’s resolution to get in shape—polar weather, overcrowded Spin classes—it’s no wonder most of us have opted to stay indoors, order Thai food, and wait for... Read More
Sue Johnson: The Love Doctor
Feb 03, 2010
The Love Doctor By Sarah Moore | More Sue Johnson is fascinated by love. Whether as a child watching men and women flirt in her parents' British pub, or as a doctorate student at the University of British... Read More
Book World review of Joshua Ferris's 'The Unnamed'
Jan 26, 2010
By Ron Charles Wednesday, January 20, 2010 THE UNNAMED By Joshua Ferris Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown. 310 pp. $24.99 WP BOOKSTORE Joshua Ferris constructs his new novel, "The Unnamed," around one of Emily Dickinson's most devastating poems, 13 lines of frostbitten despair that begins,... Read More
Harold Evans and His "Rag and Bone Men of the Opinion Trade"
Jan 26, 2010
Harold Evans, doubtless the finest English newspaper editor of his time, could make you weep in his memoir of formative days in Manchester and glory years (1965 - 1981) with the Sunday Times of London. Weep, that is, not so much for the anemic papers so close to death today, but weep for those... Read More
Career Comeback by Lisa Johnson Mandell: One of the Best New Books for Job Hunting
Jan 12, 2010
The Best New Books for Job Hunting by Rebecca Adler Warren Want a new job in the new year? These savvy reads will help you land a killer career. Career Comeback by Lisa Johnson Mandell Getting older can be a career killer—if you go about job hunting it the wrong way. Entertainment... Read More
Dan Senor's Start Up Nation Helps Explain Israel's PR Problem
Jan 06, 2010
Israel’s PR Problem The Jewish state is good at many things, like war and technology, but inept at promoting itself. It needs to get better, soon. By Michael Hirsh | Newsweek Though he lacks all credibility—even in his own country these days—Western journalists never... Read More
Susan Isaacs' Angry Conversations with God Named One of the Best Books of 2009
Dec 21, 2009
We reveal our list of the best books of the year. | Relevant Magazine As 2009 draws to a close, it's time to look at our favorites of the year. You've already seen what our favorite albums are; here are our favorite books (and be on the lookout for our favorite movies of... Read More
Robert Hicks' A Separate Country One of The Washington Post's Best Books of 2009
Dec 15, 2009
Holiday Guide: Best Books of 2009 The Washington Post Historical Fiction ALL OTHER NIGHTS, by Dara Horn (Norton, $24.95). Horn sends her fascinatingly conflicted Jewish protagonist, a Union soldier ordered to murder his uncle, roaming across a Civil War-torn landscape. -- WS THE... Read More
Ashley Merryman on Parenting
Dec 14, 2009
Ashley Merryman has co-authored numerous articles about parenthood. Over the past two years, she and journalist Po Bronson have collaborated on an award-winning series of articles in New York Magazine. Their most recent work, a... Read More
Mitch Joel's Six Pixels of Separation Top Read Among CEOs
Dec 04, 2009
800-CEO-READ, a leading direct supplier of book-based resources, compiles a monthly list of best-selling business books based on purchases by its corporate customers nationwide. Here are the best sellers for November 2009. THE TOP TEN: 1. "Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected.... Read More
Publishers Weekly Interviews Joshua Ferris About His Latest Novel
Nov 17, 2009
Grasping at Hope by Shaun Manning | Publishers Weekly Joshua Ferris follows up his PEN/Hemingway Award–winning debut Then We Came to the End with The Unnamed, whose protagonist suffers from a... Read More
Taken in Vain: New London's Folly
Nov 16, 2009
Taken In Vain: New London's Folly With Pfizer Leaving, City Has Nothing But Weedy Acres To Show For Grandiose Development Scheme That Uprooted Homeowners And Razed A Neighborhood Read the full article... Read More
Dan Senor: Marching Through the Meltdown
Oct 28, 2009
Marching Through the Meltdown by Dan Senor & Saul Singer | The Daily Beast For all the press coverage of the Middle East, there is one side of Israel that gets scant attention: the country’s economy has the highest... Read More
Marcus Luttrell Honors Fallen Comrades at Sam Houston State University
Oct 09, 2009
Keeping the memory alive: Former Navy SEAL shares insight into dangerous mission as well as honors fallen comrades by Meagan Ellsworth & Victoria Craven | The Houstonian Red tie and black suit, the lone survivor stood tall in front of the empty chairs in the Killinger... Read More
Rupert Isaacson's Horse Boy Coming to Theatres
Sep 30, 2009
Seeking Aid for Autism in Mongolia By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS | The New York Times What do you do if your autistic son is unresponsive to treatment yet inexplicably soothed by the proximity of horses? If you are Rupert Isaacson and his wife, Kristin Neff, you take him to a country... Read More
Po Bronson: Should Children Redshirt Kindergarten?
Sep 04, 2009
Should Children Redshirt Kindergarten? By Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman | Newsweek Every September, the class of incoming American kindergartners is ever slightly older. In the U.S., kids who start kindergarten... Read More
Barbara Corcoran Embodies That Can-Do Entrepreneurial Spirit: TV Puts Tigress in its Shark Tank
Aug 14, 2009
TV puts tigress in its 'Shark Tank': Barbara Corcoran embodies that can-do entrepreneurial spirit BY Gina Salamone | New York Daily News Wanna-be entrepreneurs get the chance to score large sums of money to kick-start a business on "Shark Tank," premiering tonight on... Read More
Gail Blanke: What Are You Waiting For?
Jul 31, 2009
What Are You Waiting For? by Gail Blanke | Forbes Waiting is a national pastime. We wait for the mood to strike us, we wait for the weather to change, we wait for someone to strike up the band and give us our cue to start... Read More
Mitch Joel: Employment 2.0—The New Resume is Out There
Jul 16, 2009
Employment 2.0—The New Resume is Out There By Mitch Joel | Vancouver Sun There is no doubt that the employment landscape is shifting. It's not just the numbers out of Statistics Canada, and this has nothing to do with the national or local employment rate. It also has little to... Read More
Susan Issacs: The Rotisserie Chicken Gospel
Jul 02, 2009
The Rotisserie Chicken Gospel Author Susan Isaacs on comedy, church hopping, and having a 'middle-class white girl's Dark Night of the Soul.' Interview by Katelyn Beaty | Christianity Today Susan Isaacs ... Read More
Robert Wright Receives Glowing Review from The New York Times Sunday Book Review
Jun 29, 2009
No Smiting By PAUL BLOOM | The New York Times Sunday Book Review God has mellowed. The God that most Americans worship occasionally gets upset about abortion and gay marriage, but he is a softy compared with the Yahweh of the Hebrew Bible. That was a warrior God, savagely... Read More
Author Ben Sherwood for Parade: Surviving in America's Recession Capital
Jun 12, 2009
Surviving in America's Recession Capital by Ben Sherwood published: 06/14/2009 Ben Solomon wears two cellphones clipped to his belt. The one on his left hip is for his family and friends, and the one on his right hip is for local families facing foreclosure. The 65-year-old mayor of El... Read More
The New York Times Magazine Interviews Robert Wright about The Evolution of God
Jun 02, 2009
Questions for Robert Wright Evolutionary Theology Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON | The New York Times Magazine “The Evolution of God,” your new book on the history of religion, strikes me as a welcome antidote... Read More
Bob Beaudine Shares the Trick to Landing Your Dream Job
May 20, 2009
Hunting for a Job? Make Your Contacts Work for You by Cherry Hall | The Dallas Morning News PLANO – Forget traditional networking with near strangers. Executive headhunter Bob Beaudine says you already know everyone... Read More
BusinessWeek Profiles Randall Jones
May 19, 2009
Who Are the Richest People in Town? Every town has a richest person. Do you know who the richest person in your town is? Have you ever wondered who the richest man in town is? W. Randall Jones has. The former magazine... Read More
AOL Reviews Lisa Nichol's No Matter What!
May 12, 2009
Lisa Nichols: Living the Life You Love by Lynnette Holloway | AOL BV Book Shelf Lisa Nichols helped scores of people realize their dreams through her best-selling 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' series and her appearance on the... Read More
Christopher Hitchens for Slate: Ruthless Yet Humane – Why Obama Cited Churchill on Torture
May 05, 2009
Ruthless yet Humane Why Obama cited Churchill on torture. By Christopher Hitchens | Slate He didn't get the attention he deserved for it, but President Obama was very cleverly fusing liberal principles with an appeal... Read More
The New York Times Sunday Book Review Praises Christopher Buckley's Losing Mum & Pup
May 03, 2009
Parting Words By THOMAS MALLON | The New York Times Last fall, when he declared his support for Barack Obama, Christopher Buckley was more or less excommunicated from the pages of National Review, the magazine... Read More
New Self-Help Books Inspire In Our Troubled Times
Apr 30, 2009
New self-help books inspire in our troubled times Lifestyles_Happy_Life_Books By MEGAN K. SCOTT Associated Press Writer Posted: Apr. 23, 2009 NEW YORK Finding a better job. Staying calm. Reinventing yourself. In these tough times, there's a wealth of books offering the silver... Read More
Christopher Buckley's Cover Story for The New York Times Magazine
Apr 29, 2009
Growing Up Buckley By CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY New York Times Magazine Lady Bracknell: Are your parents living? Jack: I have lost both my parents. Lady Bracknell: To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as... Read More
Exclusive Q&A with Teen Author Rachel Nalebuff: 'I want women to share their stories'
Apr 29, 2009
Teen author: I want women to share their stories' By CASSANDRA SPRATLING - Detroit Free Press Though it eventually happens to almost every girl, it's rare that women and girls talk about it aloud with ease. But 18-year-old Rachel Kauder Nalebuff hopes to change that -... Read More
A Gallop Towards Hope: One Family's Adventure in Fighting Autism
Apr 24, 2009
By MOTOKO RICH When Rupert Isaacson decided to take his autistic son, Rowan, on a trip to Mongolia to ride horses and seek the help of shamans two years ago, he had a gut instinct that the adventure would have a healing effect on the boy. Mr. Isaacson's instinct was rewarded after the trip,... Read More
Spotlight Finds Eminent Domain Crusader
Apr 24, 2009
Spotlight Finds Eminent Domain Crusader By LARY BLOOM Published: April 17, 2009 OVER many years, Susette Kelo stood up against corporate power and New London officials, and became known around the country as the woman who couldn�t be moved. But four years after her eminent domain case was... Read More
Marcia Clark on Why Fiction Is Way Stranger Than Truth
Dec 31, 1969
The Wall Street Journal By Marcia Clark May 11, 2012 Because it has to be. True crime is almost never strange. True crime goes something like this: Joey gets mad at Stewie for poaching his girlfriend. Joey gets drunk and... Read More