Creativity

“100 Voices” Share Their Experiences of Inspiration in the Face of Global Uncertainty

“What if we thought of ourselves as pinecones and the coronavirus our fire? Maybe it will pop open and release our seeds to grow something new.” That is one of many — well, 100 to be exact — thoughts and insights compiled during the prime years of Covid-19 and presented…

Jim AlkonJuly 11, 2022

Miscellany

Your Throat – The Source of Your Creative Writing

Your throat is centered between the energies of your mind and body. If the two are out of sync you will not communicate clearly. To unfold the energies from your throat you must first realize its powerful influence on you. In the throat, you hold your resonance with the outside…

Lori MorrisonAugust 16, 2017

Miscellany

TED Talks: Oscar Schwartz’s Computer Can Write Poetry

It seems like a silly question: Can a computer write poetry? But then, after writing a poem, will that computer then take over the world? Oscar Schwartz is less concerned with the speculative danger surrounding artificial intelligence – instead, he’s using algorithms to help us figure out what it means to…

Katie HiresMarch 1, 2016

Nonfiction

Author Jennifer Clement Answers One Question about ‘Widow Basquiat’

Here's the truth: I don’t know what makes an artist, an artist. They just seem to have this inner-fire pushing them to create. I constantly struggle with what to actually call it. I don’t even know if it has a name; I just know that when people have it they…

Matt GillickApril 1, 2016

Nonfiction

TED Talks: Why Raghava KK Has a 200-Year Plan

What is the single most important force defining your identity? For artist Raghava KK, it’s your creative legacy. In this engaging and insightful talk, from TEDxSummit 2012, Raghava describes the 200-year plans he and his wife design in order to put their unique stamp on the digital legacies they…

Katie HiresJanuary 19, 2016

Nonfiction

TED Talks: Bryan Stevenson on Identity and Injustice

Black History Month ends in just a few days, so this week’s installment of TED Talks Tuesday is one of the most elegant examinations of race in America ever given on the TED stage. Human Rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s moving talk from TED 2012 paints a hard picture…

Katie HiresFebruary 23, 2016

Nonfiction

A Search for Creativity: Amy Tan’s TED Talk Inspires A Reading List

Where does creativity come from? In this TED talk from TED2008, The Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan meditates on the influences in her life and the lives of others in an attempt to discover where creativity can be found within us. For Tan, it’s all about intentionality, focus and…

Katie HiresMarch 15, 2016

Children's Books

Heartfelt and Educational, “Quacky, Smacky & Tacky” Fosters Kids’ Empathy and Curiosity

"An entertaining read and a must for anyone who cares about wildlife, nature and the environment." — Colleen Needles Steward, CEO of Tremendous! Productions —∞— There’s a lot to like about the picture book Quacky, Smacky & Tacky (Browne+Browne). It’s a delightful children's story geared for preschoolers to sixth-graders based…

Jim AlkonApril 22, 2021

Children's Books

“The World Needs Who You Were Meant to Be” Celebrates the Creativity in Every Child

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Who-You-Were-Made-to-Be-1.jpg The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be (Tommy Nelson), the second children's book by New York Times bestselling author Joanna Gaines, illustrated by Julianna Swaney, celebrates how creativity and acceptance can come together to make for a bright and beautiful adventure. The book follows a group of…

BookTribNovember 13, 2020

Better Self Better Self - Featured Nonfiction

When World-Renowned Musicians Are in Trouble, They Call Kenny Werner

When Herb Alpert was trapped by a creative block, he turned to Kenny Werner who had just published his landmark book, Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Musician Within. Alpert was floored by it. Now Werner has released the much-anticipated follow-up, Becoming the Instrument: Lessons on Self-Mastery from Music to Life (Sweet…

BookTribJanuary 18, 2022

Better Self Business Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Find and Achieve “Your Next Big Idea” With This Workbook and Guide

You might think you don't have a creative bone in your body. But you'd be wrong. Most of us come up with novel ideas at one time or another. They may be big or small, good or bad, doable or not so doable. If you have to solve an unusual…

Cynthia ConradMay 3, 2021

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

Better Self Business Business - Featured Nonfiction

AudioFile Spotlight: 5 Audiobooks for New Beginnings

Every January offers the chance for new beginnings, but this year we seem to crave that change more than ever. Most of us are anticipating a bright 2021 filled with the hope that the normal rhythms of our lives are on the near horizon. It does indeed appear that we’re…

Candace LevyJanuary 27, 2021

Fiction

Literary Tale of Sadness, Sorrow and Grief Told by a Poet

Should a book ever win a prize for its unreliable narrator, bet on The Offering (Penelope Books) by Salah el Moncef. The narrator in question is Tariq Abbassi, a lapsed Muslim who leaves Tunisia to study philosophy at the Sorbonne but ends up running a successful Middle Eastern restaurant in…

Joanna PoncavageNovember 7, 2022

Business Miscellany Nonfiction Podcasts Potpourri - Featured

Writers, Ink Podcast: Rethinking Productivity with Bestseller David Kadavy

BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in…

Writers, InkOctober 31, 2022

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured Children's Books

Shanelle Harrison’s Lively Approach to Helping Kids Learn Their Colors

The children’s book Curious Colors (Uptown Press) offers a rainbow of delights, not the least of which is the art and design: the fact that Shanelle Harrison is an award-winning visual artist shines through clearly. She’s also a lauded educator, another accolade that bolsters her book with clarity and depth.…

Judy MorenoAugust 16, 2021

“100 Voices” Share Their Experiences of Inspiration in the Face of Global Uncertainty

Your Throat – The Source of Your Creative Writing

TED Talks: Oscar Schwartz’s Computer Can Write Poetry

Author Jennifer Clement Answers One Question about ‘Widow Basquiat’

TED Talks: Why Raghava KK Has a 200-Year Plan

TED Talks: Bryan Stevenson on Identity and Injustice

A Search for Creativity: Amy Tan’s TED Talk Inspires A Reading List

Heartfelt and Educational, “Quacky, Smacky & Tacky” Fosters Kids’ Empathy and Curiosity

“The World Needs Who You Were Meant to Be” Celebrates the Creativity in Every Child

When World-Renowned Musicians Are in Trouble, They Call Kenny Werner

Find and Achieve “Your Next Big Idea” With This Workbook and Guide

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

AudioFile Spotlight: 5 Audiobooks for New Beginnings

Writers, Ink Podcast: Rethinking Productivity with Bestseller David Kadavy

Shanelle Harrison’s Lively Approach to Helping Kids Learn Their Colors

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