Michael Ruscoe

VMA Week’s Friday Flashback: 4 Bios of Rock ‘n’ Roll Musicians Who Shaped a Genre

As we wrap up BookTrib's VMA Week, we thought we would revisit our article from 2015 about artists who shaped musical genres and were pioneers in the industry. Here is a review of 4 books that are just as relevant as when we first ran this piece. Where would I…

Michael RuscoeAugust 25, 2017

Nonfiction

It’s Getting Chili: Southwestern Recipes You Need for Easy Entertaining

Even though the weather has been temperate, ‘tis the season to be outdoors—picking Christmas trees, skating, ogling holiday store windows or maybe even a round of caroling with friends. After hours outside, what could be better afterward than a steaming bowl of chili—or better yet, dreaming about a trip to…

Michael RuscoeDecember 14, 2015

BooksToScreen Fiction

3 Books That Would Make Great Movies for Hanukkah

One of my favorite parts of the holiday season is watching the multitude of Christmas movies we’ve spent our lives with. I love A Charlie Brown Christmas, I cry like a baby at the end of It’s a Wonderful Life, and each year sparks a new debate over which is…

Michael RuscoeDecember 7, 2015

Business Nonfiction

Jeffrey Pfeffer on Leadership: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time

In a world full of books, webinars, sensitivity training, TED Talks and employee retreats, you’d think that by now, we’d have gotten the hang of leadership. Jeffrey Pfeffer Not so, says bestselling author and noted Stanford business school management expert Jeffrey Pfeffer. Surveys from far and wide tell us that…

Michael RuscoeDecember 3, 2015

Miscellany

Tom Hanks Uses a Typewriter and You Should, Too

Richard Polt I’m typing these words on a computer, and you’re reading them from one. The ideas begin in my head, flow down my arms into the keyboard, and then they’re digitized and blasted through the great, endless expanse of the Internet. Your computer snags them and turns them into…

Michael RuscoeNovember 23, 2015

Nonfiction

Finding an Island of Hope in a Sea of Depression is The Happiness Quest

There are many ways to try to visualize major clinical depression, a disorder that affects one out of every five women and one out of every eight men. The picture I always found most accurate comes from a scene in the Tom Hanks movie Cast Away. One moment, he’s on…

Michael RuscoeNovember 13, 2015

Nonfiction

‘Charlie Mike’: The Story of Veterans Who Continue to Serve Through Team Rubicon

The woman at the Red Cross said Port-au-Prince, Haiti was too dangerous for untrained volunteers after the earthquake when Marine veteran Jake Wood called to volunteer in January 2010. “It’s complete chaos there,” she said. 'Charlie Mike' author Joe Klein “I’m a marine,” he replied. “We do chaos.” Wood hung…

Michael RuscoeNovember 10, 2015

Fiction

Inktober: Peter Kuper’s “Ruins” is an Epic Adventure in Storytelling

Peter Kuper cr: drawger.com/peterkuper During October artists and illustrators hone their craft by committing to posting one inked work a day with the hashtag #Inktober. Illustrator Peter Kuper is no stranger to drawing every day. Kuper’s latest illustrated work runs 256 pages, a gripping story that explores the shadows and…

Michael RuscoeOctober 26, 2015

Nonfiction

Memoir: How Diana Nyad Swam from Cuba to Florida and into a World Record at 64

Diana Nyadcr: Steven Lippman As you’ve probably heard, the United States and Cuba have been working on normalizing relations after generations of a diplomatic stand-off that has been at best, frosty, and at worst, nearly deadly. But in 2013—two years before the announcement that the U.S. would again open an…

Michael RuscoeOctober 23, 2015

Nonfiction

Review: Pulitzer Prize Winner Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Laws of Medicine

We’ve been trained—from childhood—to trust our doctors; some patients trust their doctors absolutely. For many, it can be unnerving to hear a doctor discuss what he or she doesn’t know—and admitting that what we do know about medicine is a tiny speck in the vast universe of what has yet…

Michael RuscoeOctober 21, 2015

Nonfiction

Review: Elvis Costello’s Life as a Wordsmith Continues in Memoir

Elvis Costello Photo by Ian Dickson/Rex Features There may be more famous rock performers, there may be bands that pack larger venues and whose albums outsell his, but for my money, the absolute pinnacle of cool in the world of modern music is Elvis Costello. Darkly humorous and slightly dangerous,…

Michael RuscoeOctober 13, 2015

Fiction

Twain’s End Reveals Samuel Clemens’ Surprising Love Triangle

Who was the real Mark Twain? In the end, “Mark Twain” himself wasn’t a real person—he was a pseudonym (and a persona) invented by Samuel Clemens and he was perhaps the greatest popular culture superstar of his time. As a novelist, essayist and public speaker, Clemens occupied a spot at…

Michael RuscoeOctober 12, 2015

Fiction

Eric Carle’s Newest Book: A Lifetime Love of Words and Art

Credit: Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Anyone who’s grown up in the last 40 years knows that when you ask a brown bear what it sees, the answer will be more than you bargained for—and that caterpillars tend to be very hungry. We learned these wonderful lessons thanks…

Michael RuscoeOctober 9, 2015

Business Nonfiction

The Extraordinary Power of Treating Your Employees Well

I don’t know when it happened, but at some point, “the bottom line” took over American business. It became the all-important end-all and be-all of existence. It became the god that American companies worshiped above everything else. It wasn’t always like that. At one time, people mattered. Companies invested themselves…

Michael RuscoeOctober 8, 2015

Nonfiction

These WWII Resistance Techniques Act as Modern-Day Sabotage In the Workplace

At the height of World War II, the American Office of Strategic Services, or OSS—the forbearer of the modern CIA—published a handbook for resistance fighters operating behind enemy lines. The Simple Sabotage Field Manual instructed Allied supporters on how to slow down the Axis machine from within. Slashing tires, stopping…

Michael RuscoeOctober 1, 2015

Better Self Business Nonfiction

‘Life is Good’ Book Wants You to Enjoy the Ride

It may be the quintessential American success story. But for entrepreneurs, clothing manufacturers and authors Bert and John Jacobs, their business plan, their brand and their very lifestyle boils down to three simple words: Life is Good. Bert & John Jacobs With those three words, the Jacobs brothers stumbled upon…

Michael RuscoeSeptember 25, 2015

Michael Ruscoe

VMA Week’s Friday Flashback: 4 Bios of Rock ‘n’ Roll Musicians Who Shaped a Genre

It’s Getting Chili: Southwestern Recipes You Need for Easy Entertaining

3 Books That Would Make Great Movies for Hanukkah

Jeffrey Pfeffer on Leadership: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time

Tom Hanks Uses a Typewriter and You Should, Too

Finding an Island of Hope in a Sea of Depression is The Happiness Quest

‘Charlie Mike’: The Story of Veterans Who Continue to Serve Through Team Rubicon

Inktober: Peter Kuper’s “Ruins” is an Epic Adventure in Storytelling

Memoir: How Diana Nyad Swam from Cuba to Florida and into a World Record at 64

Review: Pulitzer Prize Winner Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Laws of Medicine

Review: Elvis Costello’s Life as a Wordsmith Continues in Memoir

Twain’s End Reveals Samuel Clemens’ Surprising Love Triangle

Eric Carle’s Newest Book: A Lifetime Love of Words and Art

The Extraordinary Power of Treating Your Employees Well

These WWII Resistance Techniques Act as Modern-Day Sabotage In the Workplace

‘Life is Good’ Book Wants You to Enjoy the Ride

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