The leadership lessons in Sheryl Sandberg's new book about resilience and grief
Sheryl Sandberg's long-awaited book is out on what she learned about becoming resilient and coping with grief following the sudden death of her husband, Silicon Valley executive Dave Goldberg, in 2015....
View Article'A story shared between an adult and a child is one of life's greatest...
After a long day at work, then scrambling to throw dinner on the table, help with homework, clean up and shuffle kids off to bed, story time can feel like just another chore to add to an already...
View ArticleBook review: How U.S. presidents prepare for the end of the world
"Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die"By Garrett GraffSimon & Schuster. 529 pp. $28 Garrett Graff says that his new book, "Raven...
View ArticleDavid Letterman's revolution in late-night TV
"Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night" By Jason Zinoman Harper. 344 pp. $28.99 For me, it was the dialing music. "Paul, can we have some dialing music?" David Letterman would ask, and his band...
View ArticleGabourey Sidibe pens funny and revealing memoir
“This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare” by Gabourey Sidibe; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (256 pages, $25) Darned if the soothsayers aren’t right some times. Take the one who approached Gabourey Sidibe...
View ArticleJ. Courtney Sullivan's 'Saints for All Occasions' is this year's best book...
"Saints for All Occasions" By J. Courtney Sullivan Knopf. 335 pp. $26.95 "Saints for All Occasions," the new novel by J. Courtney Sullivan, is so unassuming that its artistry looks practically...
View ArticleProfessionals in crisis
"Trajectory: Stories" By Richard Russo Knopf. 256 pp. $25.95"Trajectory," the new book by Richard Russo, features four long stories about various professionals in crisis. But in his novels, Russo often...
View ArticleBethlehem author draws upon real tragedy in latest Poconos mystery
"Heart racing, she broke free of the trees and stopped short when she saw him wading in the water up to his knees. But it wasn't the sight of her father in the dam that had stopped her cold."An...
View ArticleErnest Hemingway: The man behind the cultivated image of hyper-masculinity
"Ernest Hemingway" By Mary V. Dearborn Knopf. 738 pp. $35 Ernest Hemingway is the macho face of 20th-century prose. His birth in 1899 marked the arrival of a man who wanted to dissociate literature...
View ArticleDinosaurs — and Michael Crichton — roar again in 'Dragon Teeth'
"Dragon Teeth" By Michael Crichton Harper. 295 pp. $28.99 As if extracted from amber, a new story has been reanimated from the fossilized brain of Michael Crichton. Recently "discovered" in the late...
View ArticleIn Anita Shreve's latest, what you lose in the fire, you'll find among the ashes
"The Stars Are Fire" By Anita Shreve Knopf. 256 pp. $25.95 Anita Shreve's books are reliably engrossing literary page-turners, never formulaic — unless trouble and desire mixed with the vicissitudes...
View ArticleIn 'Shtum,' parents wreck their home to find a better one for their autistic son
"Shtum" By Jem Lester Overlook. 320 pp. $26.95 To write a novel about someone who has severe autism is to grapple with a paradox. After all, severe autism repels language, turns it chaotic or, in the...
View Article‘Like a Mule’ a lyrical tale of a feisty Nigerian elder in San Francisco
“Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun” by Sarah Ladipo Manyika; Cassava Republic Press (126 pages, $14.95) Somewhere between “The Golden Girls” and Maude Chardin (of “Harold and Maude”) lives...
View Article'Not a Sound': A thriller worth staying up all night to finish
"Not A Sound" By Heather Gudenkauf Park Row. 352 pp.$15.99 When was the last time you stayed up late because you just had to finish a thriller? If you'd asked me that question a couple of weeks ago, I...
View ArticleBeatles fans' screams, decoded
On Aug. 14, 1965, when I was 16, I saw the Beatles live in Ed Sullivan's studio. When I tell women this, they usually respond with a big smile, a bit of a shiver and sometimes a little gush of "Oh,...
View Article‘Factory Girls’ recalls the horrific Triangle Shirtwaist fire
“The Factory Girls: A Kaleidoscopic Account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire” by Christine Seifert; Zest Books (176 pages, $14.99) Near quitting time on a March Saturday in 1911, a cigarette...
View ArticleHow comics turned my kid into a bookworm
When I was a kid my dad read to me every night. By age 5, I was traveling nightly through the worlds of “The Hobbit” or “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.” Even afternoon naps would start with a...
View Article‘Stories of Stroud’ celebrates township's bicentennial
Jacqualyn J. James will participate in a meet-and-greet/book signing for “Stories of Stroud: The Evolution of Stroud Township” from 5 to 8 p.m. June 16 at the Glen Brook Golf Club, 1044 Hickory Valley...
View ArticleRecapturing the awesome meaning and power of 'love'
Sharon Salzberg is a well-known Buddhist meditation teacher who, along with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, one of the most...
View ArticleIn 'Grief Cottage,' Gail Godwin explores the long shadow of loss
"Grief Cottage" By Gail Godwin Bloomsbury. 336 pp. $27 Ghosts haunt Gail Godwin's new novel, "Grief Cottage." Some are actual ghosts, such as the confederate soldier who sometimes shows up on the South...
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