Empire of Pain
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe If you read Keefe’s 2017 article in The New Yorker about the slippery Sackler family, then you must read his book about the […]
Double Cross
Double Cross by Ben Macintyre Those wacky MI5 British intelligence offices are at it again in Ben Macintyre’s latest book Double Cross. Like his earlier novel Operation Mincemeat, Macintyre relays […]
Factory Man
Factory Man by Beth Macy Being a Bassett of Bassett furniture fame was a good gig for a lot of years. As long as you could stomach working for one […]
Dopesick
Dopesick by Beth Macy The opioid epidemic is a multi-faceted problem, but in her latest book, Dopesick, Beth Macy explores how-we-got here, starting with the introduction of OxyContin by Purdue […]
Deep Down Dark
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Story of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar If you were alive in August […]
Dead Wake
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson 100 years ago this month, while enroute from NYC to Liverpool, the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine […]
David and Goliath
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell After hearing Malcolm Gladwell speak at Belmont last month (see March newsletter), I knew I would […]
Coup
Coup by Keel Hunt Once upon a time in a land far, far away, an evil governor was selling pardons for cash. Many bad men were to be released from […]
Citizens of London
Citizens of London by Lynne Olson Citizens of London is an account of the relationship between the Americans and British during WWII with an emphasis on the men who cultivated […]
Boomerang
Boomerang by Michael Lewis If you are interested in the European financial crisis or merely a student of human behavior, I recommend Michael Lewis’s book Boomerang. Lewis’s forte is telling […]
The Most of Nora Ephron
The Most of Nora Ephron, a collection of writings from the late journalist, novelist, screenwriter, foodie, and feminist is also a mainstay on my nightstand. From her short pieces in […]
The Book of Delights
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay Winner of the National Book Circle Award for Poetry, Ross Gay “decided …to write a daily essay about something delightful.” His rules: write […]
Bite By Bite
Bite by Bite by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of a collection of nature essays, World of Wonders, and a professor of English at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, has […]
Bedside Table Books
I usually read a book before bed, but often the next morning, I cannot remember what I read! Does this happen to you? If so, I suggest the Bedside Table […]
American Gun
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 by Cameron McWhirter Lest you think I read nothing but crime novels (mostly true!) I read and recommend American Gun: The True […]