“What would your good do if evil didn’t exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?” – Mikhail Bulgakov Comedic relief, applied to history, can be the blending of the absolutely horrific with the first hand accounts of survivors. It is “One day we’ll look back on this and laugh.”, fleshed-out. In the case of Armando Iannucci’s film The Death of Stalin it is, “One day others will look back on this […]

As a reader I tend to stick with nonfiction, history, periodicals and well, Twitter. However, I’m not one to turn down the offer of a book club, even if the material is exclusively of the self-help/professional development variety. And so, ever so slightly outside of my reading comfort zone is how I ran into “Never Eat Alone” by Keith Ferrazi. The book purports to instruct the reader in exactly what the title implies, to be […]