Monday, November 5, 2012

Paul Strassfield: Assume a Virtue If You Have It Not

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Lawyer, Mother

I want to read books with my son that expose him to history and the men and women who changed it. I want to feed his curiosity about time past and help him understand bygone eras. Luckily, there are a slew of fantastic options available to do precisely that.

Professor Emeritus of Social Work, Arizona State University

We need to hold bank CEOs and other corporate officers personally liable for their misconduct. Simply fining companies does not work since they obviously see this as just another cost of doing business.

Arts writer

Before the 60s counterculture revolution there was the world of the Beats and even before the iconic literature of Howl or On The Road, there was Jack Kerouac's poems, arguably the cool poetic fire that sparked of The Beats.

Student, Wellesley College

I'm not sure why I love reviews so much and find the reading of criticism so difficult. Maybe it's because reviews are more fun. But it's been helpful to think of criticism not as the enemy of creativity, but as its complement.

Book Devotee

Close the blinds, light a single candle, put on that hideous orange cassette tape of haunted house sounds you bought at the thrift shop and lost on the floor of your car for eight years, and crack open one of the following.

Clinical, school social worker and professor of social work education.

Oddly Normal book review: John Schwartz's painful and humorous account of raising his son who's different.

John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis

Why Nations Fail is grand history in the style of Jared Diamond. Provocative and fun, the theme is that the reason nations fail or succeed is not economic policies, geography, culture, or value systems -- but rather political institutions.

Poet

Ruth Stone's poem ends with the line: "I cannot live without you, oh brief and inconceivable other." And then we're brought to Bianca's reality: writing poems on typewriters, drinking wine, and the line to start it all: "This is your love speaking."

Author, 'Comic (and Column) Confessional'

Why do I like Kingsolver's work? She's progressive, feminist, and her fiction puts things in a sociopolitical context. But I think many open-minded people of any ideology would find her work engaging.

Senior fellow and vice president of intellectual leadership, The Ayn Rand Institute

Instead of liberals dismissing Rand's appeal to the American spirit of individualism and independence, as President Obama recently did in his Rolling Stone interview, why don't liberals make Rand part of a new canon? Why let conservatives monopolize her?

Associate Professor of English, Fordham University and Public Voices Fellow with the Op-Ed Project

On November 6, 2012, Jane Austen will vote for Barack Obama. With the specter of Mitt Romney as president, her ghost is nothing to fear.

Author and reviewer

I love reading more than I like hot showers and cold milk, and way more than I like vacuuming or even a clean house. But we all need reminding, now and then, and Sandy sent the message home.

Los Angeles-based writer

Sal Paradise sits at his typewriter with a blank page in the middle of the filmed adaptation of On the Road. The paper is locked in and juxtaposed with the shot of an empty road: snow-capped mountains on the side, still, desolate and open.

Author, "The 90 Day Novel" and "The 90-Day Rewrite"

The surest way to kill the aliveness of our characters is by insisting that they always make sense. When we follow the labyrinth of most conversations, we discover one constant: people always want something.

Author, Lauren Takes Leave

This step-by-step manual contains pre-, during and post-apocalyptic teaching guides intended to home school your child in the dark of your very own, semi-submerged house, using your state's learning standards. It is applicable for grades K-12.

Political writer, author, mediator, and death penalty appeals lawyer

As Sandy reminds us of the reality of climate change, I want to share an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Return of the Light: A Political Fable in Which the American People Retake Their Country.

Writer

With thousands of participants (200,000 and counting this year alone), NaNoWriMo is never dull. Most people have a book in mind that they "plan on writing one day." That is the beauty of NaNoWriMo.

Freelance journalist

Before taking a position on the question of paid reviews we should take a more holistic view of factors which touch almost all facets of our lives. We should understand the nature of money.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-strassfield/oddly-normal-john-schwartz_b_2070018.html

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