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Some Ground Control for the Mercury Seven: The Astronaut Wives Club

In The Astronaut Wives Club, Lily Koppel describes the club that formed among the seven wives of the Mercury Seven. Their husbands’ heads may have been in the clouds, but these wives kept their feet on the ground. For some books about men, and women, who launched themselves into the sky, read on.(READ MORE)

The Tics and Triumphs of the World’s Strongest Librarian

The World's Strongest Librarian is about the life of Josh Hanagarne, a Salt Lake City librarian diagnosed with Tourette's as a young, bookish schoolboy. He reflects on the obstacles his syndrome presents, and how weight-lifting has helped him gain control of his tics and his confidence. (READ MORE)

Our Favorite Writers on Fathers and Fatherhood

To celebrate Father's Day, we've rounded up six great explorations of father-son and father-daughter relationships, as depicted by some of our favorite authors. Funny, daring, moving, and sincere, tackling large issues of race, sexuality, and inheritance alongside the comedy of day-to-day life, these...(READ MORE)

Light and Dark in the Life of “Li’l Abner” Cartoonist Al Capp

In their biography Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary, Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen illustrate how hard it would be to overstate the popularity of Capp’s “Li’l Abner” comic strip, which spawned a Hollywood movie and a Broadway musical. In a 1947 New Yorker profile of Capp that ran in two...(READ MORE)

Internships From Hell, Exorcised Through Writing

In The Internship, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson play two downsized salesmen who, faced with unemployment and zero job prospects, manage to weasel their way into internships at Google. To read about some real life internship nightmares, check out the following memoirs (and one truly cautionary biography.)(READ MORE)

War is Hell, Cancer is Worse: Mark Weber’s Tell My Sons

Tell My Sons -- a memoir by Lt. Col. Mark Weber -- is basically an open letter to his wife Kristin and their three boys, Matthew, Joshua, and Noah, as he battles stage IV intestinal cancer. Patrick Sauer pulls some passages from Tell My Sons that stood out, and comes away from the book with the utmost...(READ MORE)