This book had a recent mention in a New York Times article about, of all things, the sale of heart-shaped bathtubs at the Cove Haven/Poconos Palace resort. No, I’ve never…

Laura Ingalls Wilder began publishing her Little House books when she was 65 years old. Frank Lloyd Wright’s final design for New York City’s Guggenheim Museum was approved when he…

The brother-sister team of Ian and Alisa Kramer offer both the dramedy and clinical perspectives about how difficult it is for overweight people to find acceptance, identity, and success in…

It’s not required to read the prelude to Colm Tóibín’s Long Island - this story stands alone; or your point of reference could simply be the movie Brooklyn, the beautiful…

I love a teacher or a journalist who can make history fun, and Mo Rocca does just that in his well-researched and amusing book Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving.  Rocca…

Now that the third season of the Welcome to Wrexham docuseries has ended and we await the Welsh football club’s move into a higher-ranking league, it’s a good time to…

Henry Winkler is a cool guy; waaay cooler than The Fonz, the character he created for sitcom TV some 50 years ago.  In Being Henry: The Fonz and Beyond, Winkler…

I raised two teenagers in the late 90’s/early 2000’s, and believe I was engaged in their TV viewing as much as any cool soccer mom, however the book Freaks, Gleeks,…

In Season 2 of the TV series The Bear, Cousin Richie undergoes a remarkable transition from sandwich shop lackey to embracing the upscale culture of fine dining. One resource for…