Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar...
By: Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Publication Date: 2008
Submitted by Bethanne on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 7:37pm A Conversation with Dick Meyer
This was a difficult interview, but that's not author Dick Meyer's fault -- he was trying his best to answer my many and convoluted questions! Well, maybe it was his fault, since my questions were many because his book is so interesting and convoluted because his ideas are so smart. You can see this simply from Meyer's first answer explaining the book's title; one small word change can signify a lot!
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Submitted by Bethanne on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 5:38pm Book of the Week: "Why We Hate Us" by Dick Meyer
Before you make any New Year's resolutions, here's a book you might want to take a look at: Dick Meyer's Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium. Meyer, a longtime CBS News producer who joined NPR as their VP of Digital Media in 2008, has written a "man-on-the-street-ifesto" (forgive me) about what it is in modern life that is not simply crass and superficial, but that makes us stressed out and unhappy.
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