2020-4 Author: Seymour Bernstein Year: 1981 Publisher: G. Shirmer. Now that I am reframing my book as a prescriptive nonfiction, I am surveying books that are comparable in some measures to what I have in mind. This book comes close to an aspect of my book in presenting the art of piano playing, and the […]
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2020-3 The Death Class: A True Story About Life by Erika Hayasaki (2014) Simon and Schuster. I love libraries. Lately, I have been spending more time there, looking through the shelves to see what works in the cover, title, subjects…what sells a book to a reader? And then, to lots of readers? Although I was
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2020-2 Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge (2017) Bloomsburt Circus The preface to the book explains the book’s genesis in a blog post by the same title, published on Feb. 22, 2014. It went viral. I remember reading it. The whole preface, including the blog post and readers
2020-1 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg (2012), Random House Trade. I am reading not only for the content, but to deepen my awareness of the art of writing. This book was on the best seller list for The New York Times, Amazon.com, and
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With a suggestion from a brilliant editor to consider re-framing my book as a prescriptive nonfiction, I started reading many that seemed informative in the process. I remembered the controversy around Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua (2011), but it was only one of the seven books I picked up from the
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