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Jan.24.2011
Po Bronson co-wrote the book Nurture Shock, and after reading his Red Room blog of Jan 19, 2011, I’ve concluded that I can’t critique what he’s written. Why? Because I haven’t raised kids myself, where it worked out great, and then endeavored to write about it.
Doing things the wrong way and...
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May.27.2010
Thanks once again to Huffington Post for giving me some love. Nice to seeWorld Cup fever is spreading.
http://huff.to/c4OEri
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May.11.2010
TheGlorious World Cup shoutout from MEWS for May 15, 3pm Watchung BookstoreMontclair New Jersey
http://mewsie.org/2010/event-the-glorious-world-cup-watchung-bookstore/
[again,thanks so much for your help, I hope all is well with you. Would you makesure this goes into the blog section of...
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Apr.26.2010
Today our subject is a magnificent, important, beautifully-written, breathtakingly significant book that, by an astounding coincidence, I co-authored. But that’s not the reason I am blogging about it. I would never use The Daily Sam, or Facebook, or Twitter, etc. to promote myself. As always, my...
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Nov.11.2009
While Po Bronson's new book Nurture Shock is getting all the buzz, I would like to recommend an earlier book of his. What Should I Do With My Life is a somewhat intimate look at the personal lives of ordinary people trying to answer the question. It's funny when you're reading a book in public,...
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Apr.04.2009
What makes a blog both exciting and dangerous is the immediacy of the format. Confessions, passions and urges are typed onto a little box on a screen, one rectangular button with the corners worn off is clicked with a tap of a key, and those confessions become public.
I’m a person with three novel...
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Feb.20.2009
I'm happy to announce that my next book has just been turned in. It's titled NurtureShock, and it's cowritten with fellow journalist Ashley Merryman. Our publisher has slotted the book for September release. It's about the cutting edge science of childhood - sort of a Freakonomics of growing up....
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Jan.09.2009
Po Bronson's Bombardiers is a satire of corrupt bond traders in mid-1990s San Francisco which makes the reader both laugh and cry. While not actually set in Silicon Valley, the novel captures the 1990s spirit of yuppies struggling on awful jobs to make big bucks and how their companies mercilessly...
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Dec.07.2007
Back in May, my work with Ashley Merryman for Time Magazine won the top journalism award from the organization of America's top sociologists, the Council for Contemporary Families.
Well, we just learned that our work for New York Magazine won the top science journalism award from the world's...
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