It’s a well-known adage that you have to hit rock bottom before you can change. In Rayya Elias’s case, she hits about a thousand rock bottoms before finally being able to pull herself up. She writes about them all in her debut memoir Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk from the...(READ MORE)
Not everyone gets to experience being a mother or father. Jennifer Finney Boylan is one of the rare few that has experienced both … as well as something in between.(READ MORE)
It’s safe to say that on the long list of things people fear most, aging falls somewhere near the top. Luckily, there are some writers who possess the capability of approaching the oft-dreaded subject with a blend of humor, refreshing insight, and wit. (READ MORE)
Of course there are exceptions, but alongside almost every great literary figure there is a great, often just as creative, other half. He or she is there to support, love, and inspire; to help nurture ideas, foster breakthroughs, talk through artistic dilemmas, and be there during hard times or failures....(READ MORE)
Kate White, bestselling author and editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan for fourteen years (until earlier this month, when Joanna Coles took over the post), knows how valuable her hard-earned wisdom is to career-minded young women. At 345 pages, her new book "I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: Success Secrets...(READ MORE)
In writing the inspirational “Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles,” Gabrielle Bernstein is well aware of the mass appeal of a good spiritual transformation story. In her early twenties, Bernstein was a typical Manhattan party girl -- she looked to men, nightlife, drugs, and material...(READ MORE)
Unlike his fellow inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison, Clarence “Bob” Birdseye is no household name. You would be hard-pressed to find someone, however, whose life hasn’t been touched by his most successful invention, or innovation: the flash freezing of food. Thanks to Mark Kurlansky...(READ MORE)
New York City-born Jon Roberts, née John Riccobono, often missed school to escort his Mafia criminal father “to work.” At age seven, Roberts witnessed his father commit cold-blooded, casual murder, an event that would undoubtedly change his world forever and begin to shape him into the callous, some...(READ MORE)
With the same vigor and precision used to crack the Watergate scandal, Carl Bernstein of the famous investigative journalist duo Woodward and Bernstein digs deep into Hillary Rodham Clinton’s life and career in his 2007 biography “A Woman in Charge.” His depiction of Clinton in multiple roles...(READ MORE)
Thomas Cahill’s “A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green” is as heartbreaking as it is beautiful. While it probes weighty themes of race, class, and the utter corruption of our so-called legal system, it also invokes reflection on growth, forgiveness, and the power of spirit. Listen here...(READ MORE)
