Kelly Sarabyn – Book Club Babble

Elise Schiller’s daughter Giana Natali was a Division I swimmer and veterinary technician before succumbing to a drug addiction that ultimately led to her death. Schiller’s memoir Even if Your Heart Would Liste... Read More...

How One Mother Defeated the Odds and Built a Baby Blanket Empire

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

Raegan Moya-Jones was a mother in her thirties when she decided to start her own company selling baby blankets. Despite lacking a business education or any knowledge of the textile industry, she launched aden +... Read More...

The Power of Story to Change Organizations

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

General Electric (GE) became one of the largest entities in the world not by continuing to develop new ideas, but by buying other companies, and expanding into financial services. In her book, Imagine It Forwar... Read More...

How to Create a Successful Culture

Kelly Sarabyn

Reviews

In the 2000s, Disney created one unprofitable movie after another, from Brother Bear to Home on the Range (remember those? Me neither.) Disney ended this decades-long losing streak by bringing in Ed Catmull and... Read More...

The Dangers of Ad Creep, An Interview with Mark Bartholomew

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

Large corporations are now utilizing brain scans, digital tracking, big data, and even facial recognition software to script and target their advertisements. In Adcreep: The Case Against Modern Marketing, Mark ... Read More...

Women’s Relationship to Food, An Interview with Laura Shapiro

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women & The Food That Tells Their Stories by Laura Shapiro has been described by critics as “tough, elegant and fresh,” “unique and delectable,” and “redeeming” all of food writ... Read More...

The Limits of the Law, an Interview with Edward Carlson

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

All The Beautiful People We Once Knew by Edward Carlson is a dark, but interesting novel. Written in a poetic style and filled with rapt metaphors, it follows Stephen Harker, a disillusioned corporate lawyer, a... Read More...

Does A Red Drink Taste Sweeter? A Review of Gastrophysics

Kelly Sarabyn

Reviews

Ever wonder why so many people order tomato juice on airplanes, or if free-range chicken actually tastes better than factory farmed chicken? In Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating, Charles Spence provides ... Read More...

Is Advertising Coming to an End? A Review

Kelly Sarabyn

Reviews

Advertising is not something most people think much about, even though it’s a 600-billion-dollar industry aimed at influencing our behavior. When we do think about it, it’s usually in annoyance. Andrew Essex ar... Read More...

A Woman Breaks Into Bullfighting, An Interview with Damian McNicholl

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

Inspired by the true story of Patricia McCormick, The Moment of Truth tells the tale of the first American woman to professionally bullfight. Set in the early 1950s, it follows Kathleen Boyd as she drops out of... Read More...

Come Aboard the Starship Horizon: An Interview with Tabitha Lord

Sugar Birds – Cheryl Grey Bostrom’s Powerful Fiction Debut

In Janet Luongo’s new memoir, Rebellion 1967, the author “pulls on memory” to relive the core emotions that motivated her to take so many risks in her young life

First Date Stories: Women’s Romantic and Ridiculous Midlife Adventures, Interview with Jodi Klein

Leora Krygier talks to Book Club Babble about her latest book: Do Not Disclose: A Memoir of Family Secrets Lost and Found

Die-hard feminist from the Boomer generation, Denise Larson tells us about her latest book, Anarchy in High Heels

How Much Would You Sacrifice To Save the Planet?

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Sugar Birds – Cheryl Grey Bostrom’s Powerful Fiction Debut

The World Played Chess – Dugoni’s Beautiful Symbiosis of Writer and Reader

Charming, Authentic, and Powerful – The Apology Project by Jeanette Escudero

How Much Would You Sacrifice To Save the Planet?

The Sightless City – Noah Lemelson’s Debut Fantasy Mash-Up

Paradise, WV is Heaven . . . For Serial Killers

Should Fans of the Book Bother Seeing Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine?

Why BCB Thinks Dune Will Be A Spectacular Movie

Should I Watch Chaos Walking

The Expanse Series Versus the Books: The Character of James Holden Broken Down

What to Watch: The Most Fun and Exciting Movies of 2020

Three Worthy Literary Adaptations to Stream

Can an Adaptation Ever Match the Original Book?

Why Read? My Top Eight Reasons

How To Write a Kick-ass Love Scene – guest post by Sarah Echavarre Smith

Why Are You Struggling to Write, And What Can You Do?

A Novelist’s Cyber-Travel – Guest Post by Cai Emmons

Losing a Daughter to the Opioid Epidemic: An Interview with Elise Schiller

How One Mother Defeated the Odds and Built a Baby Blanket Empire

The Power of Story to Change Organizations

How to Create a Successful Culture

The Dangers of Ad Creep, An Interview with Mark Bartholomew

Women’s Relationship to Food, An Interview with Laura Shapiro

The Limits of the Law, an Interview with Edward Carlson

Does A Red Drink Taste Sweeter? A Review of Gastrophysics

Is Advertising Coming to an End? A Review

A Woman Breaks Into Bullfighting, An Interview with Damian McNicholl

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