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In Print This anthology of personal, inspiring, funny, embarrassing and human stories includes tales by Alec Baldwin, Brooke Shields, Sandra Bernhard, Dana Delany, Neil LaBute, Rick Steves, Paulina Porizkova, Bob Balaban, Eric Bogosian and Anthony Edwards. Alec Baldwin presents an atmospheric and heartfelt depiction of life in LA, while Brooke Shields hilariously recalls her mishaps in the Arctic while on assignment for Marie Claire. Eric Bogosian hunts for Buddhas in Thailand and Dana Delany reminisces how a movie location romance in Brazil “started my lifelong relationship with younger men.” Filmmakers may be a nomadic breed but even they never cease to be amazed by a new location. Making a movie may be easier on the backlot, but it’s certainly richer on the road. Actor Andrew McCarthy is also a contributing editor at National Geographic Traveler magazine. In 2010 he was named “Travel Journalist of the Year” by the Society of American Travel Writers. Don George has edited five previous Lonely Planet literary anthologies. He also wrote the Lonely Planet Guide to Travel Writing. Don has been global travel editor for Lonely Planet, travel editor at both the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner and is also founder and editor of www.salon.com’s ‘Wanderlust.’ He is currently contributing editor and book review columnist for National Geographic Traveler, special features editor and blogger for www.gadling.com and editor of the online literary travel magazine Recce (www.geoex.com/recce). Don appears frequently as a travel expert on television and radio and hosts a national series of onstage conversations with prominent writers. He is also cofounder and chairman of the annual Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference. Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut Jill Kopelman Kargman ’92 Demonstrating Woody Allen’s magical math equation, comedy = tragedy + time, a sensational collection of witty essays about life, love, hate, kids, work, school and more from the author of The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund and Arm Candy. Jill Kargman is a mother, wife and writer living the life in New York City . . . a life that includes camping out in a one-bedroom apartment with some unfortunate (and furry) roommates, battling the Momzillas of Manhattan and coming to terms with her desire for gay men. In this entertaining collection of observations, Kargman offers her unique, wickedly funny perspective as she zips around Manhattan with three kids in tow. Kargman tackles issues big and small with sharp wit and laugh-out-loud humor: her love of the smell of gasoline, her new names for nail polishes, her adventures in New York City real estate, and her fear of mimes, clowns, and other haunting things. Whether it’s surviving a family road trip or why she can’t stand Cirque du So Lame or the hell that was her first job out of college, Kargman’s nutty self triumphs, thanks to a wonderfully wise outlook and sense of fun that makes the best of everything that gets thrown her way. And if that’s not enough, Kargman illustrates her reflections with doodles that capture her refreshing voice. “Please welcome the new David Sedaris,” wrote the LA Times, “not that the old one is broken or anything. It’s just that Jill Kargman, in her first book of essays, provides the same gutsplitting reading pleasure.” Jill Kargman is a writer based in New York City who is deathly afraid of clowns. And mimes. After graduating from college, she worked her way up the magazine ranks and used the inspirational toil of assistant life to cowrite the 2000 Sundance film Intern. Success with novels such as Wolves in Chic Clothing and The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund has been accompanied by her work as a featured writer for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country, Elle and others. 8 Taft Bulletin Winter 2012
Bowlby’s Battle for Round Earth Frederick Leonhardt ’74 Historians will be the first to admit that the vanquished rarely if ever enjoy the privilege of telling their story let alone recording it for posterity. In Bowlby’s Battle for Round Earth, geologist, psychotherapist and philanthropist Frederick Leonhardt invites us to view John Bowlby—arguably the father of attachment theory—as a warrior who ultimately was vanquished during his long battle to bring about a naturalistic systems theory revolution within such disciplines as psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, mental health, sociology and public policy. “Think of Bowlby’s Battle as a very detailed annotated bibliography consisting of only two entries,” says Leonhardt, who is executive director of the FHL Foundation. Leonhardt decided to summarize Bertalanffy’s 1969 book General System Theory and Gerald Midgley’s 2000 book Systemic Intervention as a first pass toward telling the story behind the systems-attachment theory (dis)connection. “This book is a placeholder as we await a formal treatment of the Bowlby-systems theory connection,” says Leonhardt. In his capacity as a philanthropist, Leonhardt says he would enjoy nothing more than for a researcher (or research group) to come along and turn his “annotated bibliography” into a full-fledged treatment of the Bowlby-systems theory (dis)connection. Leonhardt started out as a soils engineer and later worked on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Red River Lock and Dam Feasibility Study as a civilian contract worker. After earning a master’s degree in structural geology from UT Dallas, he moved to Denver to work as a petroleum geologist for Atlantic Richfield. His father’s death in 1986 inspired him to pursue a career in psychology. He worked as a paraprofessional crisis advocate at Albuquerque Rape Crisis Center, went back to school and received a master’s in counseling psychology and then went on to work as a psychotherapist with troubled teens at a psychiatric hospital. Through his graduate work at Webster University and, later, his clinical experience working with teens, Leonhardt gained an appreciation for John Bowlby’s attachment theory. Today Leonhardt runs the family foundation that his grandparents started in 1953. He is a regular contributor to the Foundation’s Bowlby Less Traveled blog www.fhlfound.securesites.net/wordpress. You can find him hiking and camping in the great outdoors of New Mexico with his yellow lab, Amber. Easy Economics: A Visual Guide to What You Need to Know Leonard Wolfe with Lee Smith ’55 and Stephen Buckles Let’s face it, economics can be boring…but we all need a decent understanding of the basics if we want to survive in these difficult and uncertain times. Let’s make it more interesting. Easy Economics isn’t packed with reams of text or stacks of numbers, this book is visual and engaging. The book aims to bring you up to speed, in a way that entertains while it informs, through a collection of many of the most frequently asked questions— plus some you probably haven’t thought of—on the subject of economics. The topics range from: • The difference between debt and deficit • Causes and cures of recessions • The financial crisis of 2007–2009 explained • Is globalization good or bad? • How fiscal and monetary policies differ • Bubbles and busts Unlike so many other books on the subject, it explains through a Q & A format with entertaining and informative illustration, material that many people ordinarily find uninviting and even intimidating in an easy-to-digest, appealing way. Although they didn’t know each other at the time, Leonard Wolfe and Lee Smith were both students at Yale together: Smith as an undergraduate, and Wolfe as a graduate student. Eventually they worked together at Fortune, where Wolfe was an art director and Smith a senior writer/editor who served as Fortune’s bureau chief in both Tokyo and Washington. For more information, visit http://tiny.cc/wileyecon. Taft Bulletin Winter 2012 9
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