Jesse Kornbluth's Books
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The Collaborative HabitThe sequel to Twyla Tharp's acclaimed national bestseller, The Creative Habit, explores the art of working with othersRead More
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Huffington Post, August 11, 2010
...the gold. More often than not, I follow the Butler's advice immediately. Amazon owes a debt to Jesse Kornbluth, the Butler, himself. I did just that with the back-to-back reviews of Alexandra Lebenthal's novel, "The Recessionistas" and Gail Caldwell's...
Huffington Post, August 11, 2010
...the gold. More often than not, I follow the Butler's advice immediately. Amazon owes a debt to Jesse Kornbluth, the Butler, himself. I did just that with the back-to-back reviews of Alexandra Lebenthal's novel, "The Recessionistas" and Gail Caldwell's...
Huffington Post, July 29, 2010
...It may not strike first-time visitors to Paris, but one of the world's most civilized cities is also a theme park. Parisland , I call it. And not with derision. For those who love art, literature, music, food, high style and history --- that's you , and...
Huffington Post, July 26, 2010
...When she was young --- this was almost a century ago --- Eleanor Estes went to school with a Polish girl who was so poor that she wore the same dress every day. Kids are cruel; the girl got teased. And then she moved away. In 1944, Eleanor Estes took...
Huffington Post, July 16, 2010
...beyond me); Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote a beautiful paean to the novel in the Guardian; Huffington Post's Jesse Kornbluth made the rather startling claim that the novel is being criticized by men because Atticus Finch is "a feminized man"; Allen...
Huffington Post, July 16, 2010
...beyond me); Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote a beautiful paean to the novel in the Guardian; Huffington Post's Jesse Kornbluth made the rather startling claim that the novel is being criticized by men because Atticus Finch is "a feminized man"; Allen Barra...
Huffington Post, July 11, 2010
...I never thought I'd see the day when the lawyer who argued Brown v. Topeka Board of Education before the Supreme Court and went on to be the first African-American to sit on that Court would have his career reduced to that most dreaded of all...
Huffington Post, July 9, 2010
...In Ye Olde Days, I used to do all my heavy reading in the summer and, if possible, on the beach. This made sense --- to me, anyway. Why read deep books on serious subjects when it's cold and dark and your body is screaming for warmth and light? It's in...
Huffington Post, June 28, 2010
...My wife grew up on a game park in the woods two hours from Minneapolis. Garrison, the nearest town, was on a lake, so it was lively in the summer, but in the winter, this part of Minnesota is remote and dark. And lonely. My wife has a younger sister and...
Huffington Post, June 15, 2010
...Last week, blogger Jesse Kornbluth came up with a list of 10 books that would make great gifts for Father's Day. As usual, HuffPost Books readers had some great suggestions, and here they...
Huffington Post, June 11, 2010
...I don't have X-ray vision, but I'm pretty sure that white-collar Dads who can read without moving their lips will get Scott Turow's Innocent for Father's Day. Dads who like sports will get Andre Agassi's autobiography, Open . Dads who have no known...
Huffington Post, May 7, 2010
...Atonement was the high point. Saturday was a good idea, but the last half is ludicrous --- a Lifetime movie plot. You'd never know of On Chesil Beach if England's most famous fiction writer had not been its author. And Solar , his new book, has...
Huffington Post, April 30, 2010
...Mom isn't the little old lady from Pasadena. And you're not a kid anymore. So stun her on Mother's Day --- give her books that don't talk down to her. Like these ten......
Huffington Post, April 30, 2010
...Mom isn't the little old lady from Pasadena. And you're not a kid anymore. So stun her on Mother's Day --- give her books that don't talk down to her. Like these ten... Bird By Bird Mom always says, "Someday I'm going to write a book." Anne Lamott...
Huffington Post, April 27, 2010
...Canal House Cooking, Volume No. 3 arrived the other day, and we greeted it like a visit from an old friend who shows up just as you're starting to miss her. Two years ago, when we first encountered Canal House Cooking, Volume No. 1 , we had no idea...
New York Times, April 21, 2010
...you blush.) Ms. Hampton grinned. We had a lot of fun, she said. Corporate raiders are shyer now. Jesse Kornbluth, a wry chronicler of 80s excess when he was a contributor at Vanity Fair and New York magazine, has fond memories of those quaintly absurdist...
Huffington Post, March 26, 2010
...--- Laura Munson's account of trouble in her marriage --- was the most forwarded, shared, discussed, debated column in the Style section of The New York Times all year. It's not hard to understand why. After almost two decades of marriage, the father of...
Huffington Post, February 1, 2010
...At $10 to $14 million, it was the most expensive television pilot ever made by a network --- so expensive that ABC fired the executive who authorized it before the premiere was broadcast. O ye of little faith! Lost was an immediate hit in 2004,...
Huffington Post, January 28, 2010
..."The greatest mind ever to stay in prep school," Norman Mailer said of him, and for a lot of people, that's pretty much the line on Salinger. He wrote , then went off to live in the New Hampshire woods. He was --- as he wished --- pretty much ignored,...
Huffington Post, January 14, 2010
...I can't be the only one who noticed the juxtaposition of photographs in the news. In Washington, four Wall Street CEOs, sleek in Dunhill suits and Lobb shoes, testified that they bore no responsibility for the worst economic crisis in 70 years. In Haiti,...
Huffington Post, January 4, 2010
...--- exactly fifty years ago --- Albert Camus had a train ticket to Paris in his pocket. But he chose to travel with a friend who drove a Facel-Vega, a car so luxurious and high-powered its ads boasted it was "For the Few Who Own the Finest". The driver...
Huffington Post, December 7, 2009
...She kept 300 snails as pets. She drank a quart of gin a day. She considered robbery worse than murder. She left the United States to live in Europe because of what she called "the Negro problem" --- by which she did not mean discrimination against...
Huffington Post, December 4, 2009
...a Hungarian stepfather both of whom had a powerful aesthetic. She was emo... Related Blogs On Huffington Post: Jesse Kornbluth: Holidays '09: Ten Books I'll Bet No One Else Will Suggest The whole and entire point of HeadButler.com is to identify books...
Huffington Post, November 18, 2009
...I came to Cormac McCarthy so late that the first book of his I tried to read was "No Country for Old Men". It was so silly I had to put it down. Forget the very satisfying violence and the plot about stolen money. Consider the Texas sheriff who meditates...
Huffington Post, November 14, 2009
...Two guys I didn't know asked me to write a piece about men for an anthology about Good Men. I have learned to be cautious......
Huffington Post, November 5, 2009
...book has been compared by many to the classic To Kill a Mockingbird . One such comparison comes from Jesse Kornbluth, writing for the Huffington Post , who says that " The Help is about something. That is, something real . Something that matters . Most...
Huffington Post, November 5, 2009
...Of all the towering figures of the twentieth century, both good and evil, Winston Churchill was the most valuable to humanity, and also the most likable. It is a joy to write his life, and to read about it. None holds more lessons, especially for youth:...
Beliefnet, October 31, 2009
...Hays's daily weblog on religion, spirituality, and politics. Related Topics: News ARTICLE Swami Uptown Archive: March 2005 Jesse Kornbluth's daily weblog on religion, spirituality, and politics. Related Topics: News ARTICLE Loose Canon Archive: January...
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed, January 4, 2010
...On January 4, 1960 --- exactly fifty years ago --- Albert Camus had a train ticket to Paris in his pocket. But he chose to travel with a friend who drove a Facel-Vega, a car so luxurious and high-powered its ads boasted it was "For the Few Who Own the...
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