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Audiobook Recommendation #3: "The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell"

March 09, 2011 03:27

It's been awhile, but I started a series of posts about the best audiobooks I've found over the last few years. Number 3 is a hard to find audiobook of conversations between Joseph Campbell and Michael Toms of New Dimensions radio called The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell. The four cd set reminds me...

Joseph Campbell on Native Americans

March 04, 2011 04:59

I'm reading The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell's Life and Work which features transcripts interviews he gave throughout his life. I read anything and everything by Campbell and will soon start listening to the audiobook of The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Just yesterday I finished, again, a great...

Stuttering: The King's Speech

February 28, 2011 05:11

I caught a little bit of the Oscars with my daughter and loved the part where the old man who won Best Screenplay for The King’s Speech concluded his speech by saying “stutterers have a voice.” This hit home for me because stuttering runs in my family. When I was a kid, in first grade, I left the...

PTSD Tribes Needed

February 02, 2011 05:18

I just finished Tribes by Seth Godin. Scott Greenfield once wrote a post or two referencing Godin and somehow the name stuck, prompting me to pick it up in the library. The book’s timing was perfect as I’m pondering how best to craft marketing strategy, how to be a better leader, and whether the...

Law Review about The Wire

January 24, 2011 02:58

I read a great law review article recently about The Wire, which is available here. I have only watched a few episodes of this highly-reviewed show, but even these few gave me new insights into a system that I work in every day from but typically only see from one angle. I don’t remember the...

Benjamin Wittes' Prefers "Civility" over Law, English Language

January 17, 2011 04:25

Glenn Greenwald wrote this week about Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institution, quoting Wittes as calling the Obama Administration’s decision not to investigate the Bush Administration for approving torture “one of the more courageous things ... it has done.” That’s a common sentiment, but...

Audiobook Recommendation #2: Faithful Place

January 14, 2011 05:19

Just finished the audiobook to Tana French’s Faithful Place, and loved it. Francis “Frank” Mackey, the narrator, is a 40-something Detective in the undercover Division of “The guards,” Dublin’s Police Force. The discovery of a suitcase, found during the demolition of an abandoned flat in...

Back from Break with Book Reviews

January 13, 2011 04:57

I took what I thought would be a short break from blogging, but didn’t realize it would last for years. My big plans, to write a play or a book instead of a blog, are still that, plans, so I’m back, hoping to make a habit out of this once again. I’ve done a lot of reading too, in the meantime,...

Changes to the TLC Listserve Coming Soon?

February 11, 2010 04:22

I wrote yesterday about some of the things Jude Basile said when he spoke to TLC alumni in Dallas in November. Another thing he promised, or rather simply noted, was that changes would be coming to the listserve. He didn't specify what those changes were, but I cringed, knowing that changes like...

"Splendid People and Magnificent Warriors" No Longer Staff Members at TLC

February 10, 2010 04:57

Yesterday, I wrote about the fact that Carl Bettinger, Fredi Sison and Lynne Bratcher would not be invited back as staff members of Trial Lawyers College. This saddened me as they were three of my favorite staff members at the college in 2005. Last October, newly named TLC President Jude Basile...