Her first published book, Where Am I Sleeping Tonight-A Story of Divorce, Boulden Publishing, 2008, was an Readers’ Choice 2012 finalist for Best Children’s Book for Single Parents.
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I first came to know David’s work through his blog and book, “You Are Not So Smart” which was a fun review of all of the cognitive foibles and behavioral errors we all make.īut it turns out that David was looking at how people change their minds, how you persuade people and he thought the answer was found in all of these cognitive errors. His name is David McRaney and he is a science journalist and author. VOICEOVER: This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio.īARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special and fascinating guest. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. You can stream and download our full conversation, including the podcast extras on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, YouTube, Bloomberg, and Acast. The transcript from this week’s, MiB: David McRaney on Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion, is below. When not working he spends time with his wife and sons in New Jersey. He’s the author of the STAY DEAD series, co-author of TRAIL OF BLOOD, and is a writer of short stories. He works on top titles at DC Comics, Vertigo, Image, and Random House. Steve Wands is a Comic Book Letterer, Artist, and Indie author. Many of his books are currently in development for film and television, including both Descender and A.D.: After Death at Sony Pictures, Essex County at the CBC, Underwater Welder and Plutona at Waypoint Entertainment and Gideon Falls with Hivemind Media. He has also written extensively for both Marvel and DC Comics. Jeff has won numerous awards including an Eisner Award and Juno Award in 2017. A stunningly crafted horror space opera from Eisner Award-winners Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Walta. He collaborated with celebrated musician Gord Downie on the graphic novel and album The Secret Path, which was made into an animated film in 2016. Jeff Lemire, writer of SENTIENT for TKO Studios, is the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of such graphic novels as Essex County, Sweet Tooth, Underwater Welder and Roughneck as well as co-creator of Descender with Dustin Nguyen, Black Hammer with Dean Ormston, Plutona with Emi Lenox and A.D.: After Death with Scott Snyder. Written by Jeff Lemire with art by Gabriel Hernndez Walta, Sentient was nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Limited Series in 2020. Nothing is overdone here, instead she allows her characters to blossom in their own right which is a nice prelude to true romance. I also love the incredible ingenuity of Francesca Houghton, our heroine, who has managed to stay a leading lady of the ton despite being in the River Tick.Ĭamp is a solid hist-ro author with a seamless writing style perfect for lazy summer reading. The Duke is more accessible than the usual duchy fare, and has some amazing moments. A beautifully written charmer.-Publishers Weekly on The Marriage Wager. The Courtship Dance is a bittersweet tale about love lost and found again. RT Book Reviews on The Wedding Challenge. I also like how she sets up the characters for the final book of the series–without overshadowing the main plot as seems to be du jour among hist-ro series. Her books are also entertaining and not without substance–or a well written villainess. Camp has an easy writing style that makes it possible to identify with her characters. And Brom seems to have it out for the Duke, despite having the hots for his sister.Ĭlandestine meetings, hot sexual tension and madcap adventures ensue. The Duke’s sister, Callie, finds herself inexplicably drawn to the mysterious Earl of Bromwell. As with many of the series I read and review, I started this one somewhere in the middle with The Wedding Challenge. Because of this experience, his face is frozen in a look of terror and surprise, though he speaks calmly, often giving his friends and Willie Lincoln sound advice. Since then, he has remained in this transitional space, never speaking a word to his friends about this experience because several ethereal beings whispered in his ear as he ran that he would be judged even more harshly upon his return if he ever repeated what he saw. As such, the Reverend turned and ran, stopping only when he reached the Bardo. When the Reverend stepped up to receive his judgment, he watched the beings deciding his fate respond quite negatively when they examined him-even more negatively, in fact, than they had responded when judging the man in the funeral suit. But the second person, a man in a funeral suit, was sent to hell. The first person, a man in a yellow bathing suit, was admitted to heaven. When he died, he very quickly passed through the Bardo and into the afterlife, where he witnessed two people receive their final judgments. Indeed, he understands that his time among the living has ended, but he still refuses to leave the Bardo. Unlike his friends Hans Vollman and Roger Bevins III (and everyone else in the Bardo), the Reverend has no misconceptions regarding the fact that he is dead. Take your pick from a wide choice in historical romance for summer.įirst up in the second week of June is popular international author Gill Paul talking about The Collector’s Daughter, her new dual timeline novel about the fascinating life of Lady Evelyn Herbert. In our free giveaway a group of author friends have got together for another historical romance book offer. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and in Binge Reading today Elissa talks about setting up her James Bond character in Funny You Should Ask, the particular challenges faced by women pursuing careers in Hollywood, and her own remarkable experiences managing big film animation projects including The Croods, Hotel Transylvania and Tangled for some of the top studios. He was at that time the next James Bond, and the story she wrote about him then has haunted her career ever since. Ten years ago, Chani interviewed Hollywood star Gabe. Subscribe now! Spotify | MoreĮlissa Sussman’s hilarious break out rom com, Funny You Should Ask, is a witty romance built around the whole question and dynamic of celebrity journalism. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:47 - 29.1MB) | Embedĭon't miss out on the latest episodes. The short story, which was first published in the newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, on July 13, 1890, begins as Peyton Farquhar stands upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, about to be hanged by Federal Army soldiers during the American Civil War. This is unfortunate, because the version shown on Alfred Hitchcock Presents is outstanding and deserves more attention. On Sunday, December 20, 1959, CBS broadcast the Alfred Hitchcock Presents adaptation of Ambrose Bierce's famous short story, "An Occurrence at Own Creek Bridge." In the decades that followed, this short film has been eclipsed by a French adaptation that aired in 1964 on The Twilight Zone. Ruscetti was deeply involved in performing some of the most critical HIV-AIDS research in the 1980s, pioneered discoveries in understanding the workings of the human immune system in the 1990s, isolating a new family of mouse leukemia viruses linked to chronic diseases in 2009, and offers his insights into the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Ruscetti would eventually go on to work for thirty-eight years at the National Cancer Institute.ĭr. Ruscetti's team isolated the first pathogenic human retrovirus, HTLV-1. Ruscetti is credited as one of the founding fathers of human retrovirology. Mikovits and Kent Heckenlively with legendary scientist, Dr. "An engrossing exposé of scientific practice in America."įrom the authors of the New York Times bestselling Plague of Corruption comes the prescription on how to end the plague infecting our medical community.Įnding Plague continues the New York Times bestselling team of Dr. Inadvertently, Amani also upends Hafez’s private agenda for the Hamdan brothers’ reunion, plans motivated by a combination of greed, envy, simmering resentment, and genuine affection for his favorite niece. Amani is the usual contemporary heroine of this somewhat contrived romantic melodrama: She starts as passive and insecure then, through a series of plot manipulations and skillfully described adventures, particularly getting lost alone overnight in the desert, she discovers inner strength as well as the love of a courtly, handsome man who's half Muslim and half Jew. Along the way she uncovers a dark family secret concerning a long-lost relative. Gabe’s daughter, Amani, a recently divorced poet and professor, joins Gabe on the trip, her curiosity concerning her family history whetted after finding a scrap of poetry written and translated into English by her long-dead grandmother. Hafez Hamdan, a Yale-educated adviser to the king, has invited his younger brother, Gabe, who (like Abu-Jaber’s father) had been the king’s sparring partner years earlier, to participate in a fencing demonstration with the king. The 1995 monthlong birthday festivities are the government’s attempt to highlight Jordan’s influence in the region and Hussein’s peacemaking skills. A woman from Syracuse, New York, makes her first trip to Jordan with her immigrant father to celebrate King Hussein’s 60th birthday. Following the sale, the New Yorker’s founder, Harold Ross, offered Thurber a position on the magazine staff. Like most young authors, he suffered the disappointment of multiple rejections, but eventually his work and tenacity ended with the sale of his short story “An American Romance” to the discriminating magazine in 1927. The unknown Thurber began sending his stories and humorous essays to a new and equally unknown magazine in the city, the New Yorker. Through his imagination, a man leaves behind his humdrum life for the road to high adventure.Įvents in History at the Time of the Short Storyīorn in Columbus, Ohio, James Thurber (1894-1961) moved to New York in 1926, where he worked as a reporter, writer, editor, and cartoonist. A short story set in a suburban Connecticut town during the mid- to late 1930s published in 1939. |