Lee Cockerell recording the audio for the audio book version of Creating Magic.
Lee’s Cockerell’s upcoming Doubleday Business book Creating Magic has been stirring up strong buzz in the Disney community. On Tuesday, allears.net featured an interview with Lee and AllEars feature writer, Mike Scopa. A podcast with Lee will go live on Tuesday. Mousesteps.com will run a Creating Magic contest as well as a review. Look for lots more to come from the Disney community when Creating Magic goes on sale Tuesday, October 14th.
For more on Lee and to read his blog, visit leecockerell.com and to read about how Generation Y is getting inspired by Lee’s message and to start spreading magic of your own visit creatinggenymagic.com.
The third book in Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter series — Dexter in the Dark — is now available in paperback. Other Jeff Lindsay / Dexter-related news: Showtime has kicked off the third season of its popular Dexter televsion show; Jeff Lindsay has a Facebook page that you can fan; and you can now sign up for the Jeff Lindsay mailing list to stay on top of all the latest on Dexter.
Shannon Ethridge, author of The Sexually Confident Wife, visits the Today Show to shed some light on sex myths and explain how women can better connect with their husbands. Watch the clip and read an excerpt from the book here.
With the permeation of media and technology into nearly every aspect of young people’s lives, Spiegel & Grau recently asked three authors—Adam Mansbach, a novelist and educator; Lee Siegel, a writer and cultural critic; and Matt Taibbi, a journalist and political writer—to grapple with some of the timeless questions, such as what are some of the emerging challenges—and promise—of new technologies.
How would you define censorship?
Taibbi: In my mind there are two forms of censorship—direct and indirect. Direct censorship would be a state organ actually stepping in and forbidding some kind of public speech on either political or ideological grounds (as opposed to forbidding someone to scream “Fire!” in a crowded theater, for instance). (more…)
A riveting, raw, and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope: the life of a Cambodian woman who emerged from years of sexual slavery to become a rescuer of girls from the hellish brothels of Southeast Asia. “An inspiring story from the front lines of a global tragedy. Somaly Mam reminds us that one person can stand up and change the fate of others for good.”—Mariane Pearl, author of A Mighty Heart
For more than 350 years, the bones of the famous philosopher Descartes have been revered and fought over. Best-selling author Russell Shorto shows how Descartes’ bones, and his ideas, have remained central to the debate of science versus religion that still exists today.
Hear Russell Shorto discuss Descartes’ Bones with his editor, Bill Thomas. Visit descartesbones.com to view a photo gallery and read an excerpt.
On Sunday, The Washington Post printed a shining review of No One Sees God by Michael Novak. Reviewer Jacques Berlinerblau notes:
No matter how provocatively or condescendingly such authors as Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett may state their case against faith, today’s religious intellectuals remain eager to engage them in conversation, to assess their arguments and to set them back on the Right Path. The desire for a heart-to-heart chat with these Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is on display in Michael Novak’s No One Sees God, the latest entry in the category of Atheist Versus Theist Lit. While not without shortcomings, Novak’s book is among the best of the genre; it is erudite, sincere and rendered in clear and accessible prose. This is the work of an older and wiser thinker, one who has understood that most painfully achieved axiom of Western civilization: In religious disputation, invective achieves absolutely nothing.
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Award-winning journalist Alan S. Cowell unveils the chilling details of the Alexander Litvinenko murder in the thrilling The Terminal Spy.
For more than 350 years, the bones of the famous philosopher Descartes have been revered and fought over. Best-selling author Russell Shorto shows how Descartes’ bones, and his ideas, have remained central to the debate of science versus religion that still exists today.
