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Patagonia Founder Shares Lessons From the Edge

Yvon Chouinard, the founder of the outdoor brand Patagonia, began as a blacksmith, eventually creating Chouinard Equipment Ltd., which mainly focused on forging climbing pitons. He was a major player during the Golden Age of Climbing in Yosemite, making first ascents of the North America Wall with climbing legends Royal…
Daniel Modlin
April 30, 2019
NonfictionSave the World

Malaka Gharib and the Elusive American Dream

Malaka Gharib, the daughter of an Egyptian immigrant and a Filipino immigrant, spent her formative years carving out an identity for herself between her Filipino-American community at home and her father’s Egyptian family in Cairo. In her graphic memoir, I Was Their American Dream (Clarkson Potter), she notes the cultural…
Jeff Daugherty
April 26, 2019
Nonfiction

Modernism, Madness and the American Dream

During the early 1980s, when Tom Weidlinger, author of The Restless Hungarian: Modernism, Madness, and the American Dream (SparkPress), set out to plumb his father’s life, he already possessed a sheaf of astonishing stories. First and foremost, he knew that Paul Weidlinger counted among the towering figures in twentieth-century engineering,…
Claudia Keenan
April 16, 2019
Thrillers

Better Watch Out: Killer Santa Takes Instead of Gives

Dennis McCort is a learned fellow. He’s a retired college German professor, literary translator, language buff, music expert, and author of several books, ranging from A Kafkaesque Memoir tracing his own experience in psychoanalysis to a comedy, The Man Who Loved Doughnuts. The description of one of his books says…
Jim Alkon
April 3, 2019
Nonfiction

A Family’s Journey to Enlightenment in India and Nepal

What a stark revelation for Dena Moes, some 10,000 feet high in view of the Annapurna peaks in Nepal during her family's eight-month, life-altering trip to India, chronicled in her charming debut, The Buddha Sat Right Here: A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal (She Writes Press). To fully understand…
Meagan Foy
April 2, 2019
Nonfiction

Rediscovering South African Heritage Long After Apartheid

Ask South African author, businesswoman, and entrepreneur Jesmane Boggenpoel about living under apartheid, and she’ll tell you it wasn’t just political systemic racial segregation. At its core, it was a period during which as a South African woman of color she felt countless internal contradictions and conflict. She felt immense…
BookTrib
February 25, 2019
Nonfiction

Michelle Obama in Her Own Words: “Becoming”

3.4 million copies sold last year made Becoming  (Random House) by Michelle Obama the best-selling book of 2018! We are thrilled to share an excerpt of the memoir read by the former first lady herself. AudioFile Magazine says “In a rich, warm timbre, Michelle Obama treats us to reminiscences and reflections on her life…
Just The Right Book Podcast
January 18, 2019
Nonfiction

Political Groundbreaking Governor’s Journey

Timing is everything, whether in the political arena or the literary arena. The most significant political decision I ever had to make was whether and when to run for governor of Vermont after Gov. Richard Snelling announced he would not run for another term, leaving an open seat. I was…
Madeleine Kunin
November 23, 2018
MiscellanyPop Culture

“Beautiful Boy,” From Book(s) to Movie

Rarely do two books equal one movie, but such is the math of “Beautiful Boy” starring Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet. It’s the story of one family’s battle with addiction, based on Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), the memoir by journalist David Sheff, and…
Joanna Poncavage
November 20, 2018