World Travel, Anthony Bourdain
He met with Woolever and they discussed writing the book I was holding. They spent an hour going over the outline. A book on his favorite...
The Secret to Superhuman Strength, Alison Bechdel
The memoir of a cartoonist and writer that has many layers to it. The more she tries to improve herself, the more her self appears to...
Best American Travel Writing 2020, Robert Macfarlane
I needed this. Feeling bummed, travel on hold to foreign destinations, bags way deep in the closet collecting dust and spider webs, these...
The Rise of Superman, Steven Kotler
A book on ‘flow’ and how important it directly correlates to happiness at work, and happiness at work directly correlates to success....
The Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
A brutally honest memoir on his life – his folks slow death, having to raise his much younger brother. Leaving Chicago for San Francisco...
Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert
It’s not an instructional manual on how to be happy, rather it describes what science has to tell us about how and how well the brain can...
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
I am on the side that this was a profound autobiographical allegory. Hemingway was coming to the end of his life… he knew it… his mind...
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
Freedom of the self to live our life as we choose, expressed within this little fable. Our Jonathan Seagull – sorrow that other gulls...
Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides
An American West biography in the middle 1800s centered around the Navajos and Kit Carson. Carson’s life – how he learned to deal with...
The Writer’s Library, N. Pearl & J. Schwager
Each book you read can become a part of you. That’s a central theme here when well-known authors are interviewed about books that...