“Going There”: https://amzn.to/3ysEppZ I only read it because I want to get her on the podcast. She too is an iHeart podcaster and I figured that’d give me an in. Not that I ever watched the “Today Show.” I’m almost never up at that hour and if I want news, I’ll go online, or read […]

https://amzn.to/3E8zvAr This book did not get universally good reviews. And that’s significant, because its author, Sally Rooney, is the latest literary phenom. Oh, you know her, even if you didn’t read her two previous books. She’s the one behind “Normal People,” on Hulu, which everybody was raving about last year. I tried, but once again […]

https://amzn.to/3lk2YA0 Every baby boomer should read this book. Getting old is weird, in ways they never told you about. Sure, you regret the time you wasted. And you know so much more but nobody wants to listen to you. But the most revelatory thing is you just don’t care. It happens almost overnight. Suddenly you […]

“Crossroads”: https://amzn.to/30LsLK5 This is an incredible piece of work. But not everybody will enjoy it. Because it’s written for a small coterie of industry insiders and Iowa Workshop believers and this makes it a bit difficult to read and is the case with all of the works lauded by these cliques, plot is secondary. But […]