SOLUTIONS — HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, THROUGH SELF-UNDERSTANDING A BOOK FOR ALL SEASONS: THE MEANING OF HUMAN EXISTENCE
“Only three or four books in a life time,” Proust said through his character Swann in Remembrance of Things Past, “give us anything that is of real importance.” While Edward O. Wilson, author of The Meaning of Human Existence, is biologist, naturalist, professor emeritus at Harvard, and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he is also a […]
Book Review: Preparation of the Next Life by Atticus Lish
Atticus Lish’s novel, Preparation for the Next Life, published by Tyrant Books in paperback only, is the finest debut novel I have read in at least 25 years. Rave reviews are pouring in from every publication of note that has reviewed his book. Let me say up front that this is a must read novel, […]
Book Review: Hand to Mouth: Living in the Bootstrap of America by Linda Tirado
Barbara Ehrenreich, one of America’s finest journalists, brought contemporary American poverty to this country’s consciousness in two works of non-fiction, first in Nickel and Dimed, published in 2001, and later in Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, published in 2006, right before the great market crash of 2008. In the first […]