The Girl On The Train What’s it like to be jilted? Thrown over for a new love when you’ve placed your full trust in your betrothed? Trust. It’s the first thing that goes. That’s the dirty little secret of divorce. Conventional wisdom is you split the assets and go on with your life, especially if […]

I’m finished. I’d like to tell you it’s an easy satisfying read but the truth is despite the book being billed as a Facebook expose, the first half, when Antonio Garcia Martinez is delineating his travails in a startup, is much more interesting than the details of his tenure at the social network thereafter. And […]

“Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley” Maybe we should all read this together. I’m serious. You’ve got a smartphone, probably a tablet too. The Kindle app is free, you go to Amazon (Amazon won’t let you buy the book through the iPhone or iPad app, it doesn’t want to cough up […]

“The Voyeur’s Motel” It’s an easy read and it’s fantastic. Ignore the controversy, within its pages Mr. Talese ponders the unreliability of his voyeur narrator. Hell, even if the whole thing were made up, and it’s not, Gay visited the motel and saw the viewing posts and looked in on the action himself, the insights […]