More than one in ten of all children in the US and Europe are born to fathers who are age forty and older. At forty-seven, Lee Gutkind became one such “old new dad,” a term borrowed from Mark J. Penn. Truckin’ with Sam details the... Read More

With sex and profanity on television, and X-rated music just a download click away, it’s hard to imagine a time when entertainers were thrown in jail for words they used on stage. But that’s what happened to comedian George Carlin in... Read More

Hailed as the dean of African American writers in the 1980s, John Oliver Killens (1916-1987) wrote fiction (novels, short stories, screenplays), nonfiction, and taught at the university level. He moved in the same circles in the 1950s... Read More

The biography genre is an art form in itself. The author must balance hefty research with the storyline. It’s easy for the book to founder. Too heavy on the facts and footnotes? The reader will lose interest. Too chatty? The book loses... Read More

“There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared, it is itself the great venture and can never be safe.” These haunting words of pastor, theologian, and murdered anti-Nazi spy Dietrich Bonhoeffer resonate in... Read More

Experiencing the fantastic worlds of children’s author Theodor Seuss Geisel may not be out of reach. Simply take a stroll down Springfield, Massachusetts’ Mulberry Street. Keep an open mind, and Dr. Seuss’s And to Think That I Saw... Read More

If Cooley’s anemia were all Ralph Moscato had to face in his short life, it would have been more than enough hardship for a young man. But in addition to a fatal disease, he had a family that was a dysfunctional mess of codependency,... Read More

In this still-stormy economy, many companies are hunkering down and hoping for better economic weather ahead, but business expert Philip Geier offers a fresh, stellar perspective: stop trying simply to survive and take this opportunity... Read More