How do you choose the next book you're going to read? I often reach for something adjacent to what I've just finished reading. For example, if I'm reading a book about H.H. Holmes, I might reach next for a book about the Chicago World's Fair, about Chicago architecture, or about serial killers of the turn …
Continue reading 365 Books: Monsters of the Sea by Richard Ellis
One summer, my mother took us to Florida to visit my grandparents and my father stayed home to work. To offset the stress, he exercised. His usual M.O. was to jog until he was exhausted, drink a beer to "recalcitrate" (not a medical term although he used it that way), then swim laps in the …
Continue reading 365 Books: Twelve Days of Terror by Richard G. Fernicola, M.D.
Perhaps you've heard of this fire - if you live in NYC or you follow labor history, you've probably heard of it. Or if you've seen the movie, possibly in high school... The Triangle Fire was a sweatshop fire that occurred in 1911 and killed almost 146 young women, who worked there. The young women, …
Subtitle: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 What a subtitle, right? That alone made me want to read this book. I was visiting a bookstore in Boston and the manager recommended this book. I'm a sucker for a great recommendation and met some of my favorite books that way. You want a great book, …
The first bookstore I worked for had a distinctive personality: an older B. Dalton (remember them?) in Greenwich Village NYC, open daily until midnight, it attracted students and faculty from NYU, people who lived in the bohemian West Village, and bold personalities from all over the village and alphabet city. The store was slightly run-down …
Continue reading 365 Books: Acid Dreams by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain
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