Geoffrey Dunn,
11.19.2009
Award-winning journalist, filmmaker and historian
Bookshop Santa Cruz is giving a bag of Sarah "Palin's Just Plain Nutz" for everyone who purchases a copy of Palin's memoirs.
Melanie Drane,
11.19.2009
Poet and Creativity Coach
Mending is always accompanied by an element of risk. Something may function again, but differently, so that every successful re-use is accompanied by a sense of luck and relief.
Jonathan Fields,
11.19.2009
Blogger, serial entrepreneur, book marketer and author of Career Renegade
A few years back, proving your platform meant whipping out your big black book of press clipping. You know, the ones that proved you could get into the media at will. Not any more.
Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and Robert Greene,
11.19.2009
We live in a society of relative prosperity, but in many ways this turns out to be a detriment to our spirit. We come to feel that we naturally deserve good things, that we have certain privileges due to us.
Alex Remington,
11.19.2009
Pop culture guru and Yahoo Sports baseball blogger
Jennet Conant's recent book The Irregulars is the perfect Washington summer read: it's a breezy society tale about British spying on America before and during World War II.
Debbie Robins,
11.19.2009
Author, "Shovel It!"
You can add these techniques to your coping repertoire if you have one, or use them as a jumping-off place to build your own survival kit for when the crap hits the fan.
Judy Platt,
11.18.2009
Director of Communications and Public Affairs and Director of Freedom to Read for the Association of American Publishers
Your book's been published in the United States for an American audience. Someone who's mentioned in the book doesn't like what you've written and sues you for libel, but he doesn't sue you here, where the book has been published.
Travis Nichols,
11.19.2009
O'Hara and Schuyler are great poets for hard times. Friends who have been there, and, it seems, will continue to be, they give us courage to go on our nerve in whatever emergencies arise.