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☆ A Harvard Medical School professor with ADHD shares how he retrained his brain for deep work and reached peak productivity
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Dr. Jeffery Karp | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Using two tactics to retrain his brain, Karp gained confidence and pursued a career in academia. The MIT and Harvard professor shares the benefits of working in a flow state in his new book. Though I still struggle every day in various ways, I'm grateful to be able to say that these LIT tools enabled me to meet and far exceed those dismal early expectations. AdvertisementYou're never too old to charge your brain this way, and most definitely no one is ever too young. In fact, LIT tools can be lifesavers for kids, as they were for me.

Persons: Jeffery Karp, Karp, —, Eric Kandel, you've, we're, I've, they've, Jeff Karp, William Morrow, Jeffrey Michael Karp Organizations: MIT, Harvard, Service, Harvard Medical School, National Academy of Inventors, Royal Society of Chemistry, American Institute for Medical, Biological Engineering's College of Fellows, Biomedical Engineering Society, Canadian Academy of Engineering, Karp Lab, Center, Medical Locations: Canada, playbook, LIT

She decided to try a book she had heard about often, bell hooks’ “All About Love: New Visions." Tiffany Stewart, a writer and producer in Los Angeles, first read “All About Love” two years ago with her reading group and reread it recently. “For bell, the love she talks about is a love for justice. 'All About Love' is a love letter to justice." She responded to hooks' insistence that love was more a verb than a noun, an act of will as opposed to an abstract ideal.

Persons: Emma Goodwin, “, ”, Goodwin, Brianna Pippen, Tiffany Stewart, “ We've, William Morrow, Morrow, Rachel Kahan, George Floyd, Kahan, Gloria Jean Watkins, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Intersectionality, Shadee Malaklou, Stewart, ” Stewart, ” Doris Cooper, Cooper, Simon, Simon & Schuster, Lily Edelman, Edelman, Gold, love's, ” Edelman Organizations: —, William Morrow and Company, New York Times, Berea College, Simon & Locations: Philadelphia, Washington, D.C, Los Angeles, Berea , Kentucky, Greenwich, Monterey , California

☆ Baked by Melissa, who invented the viral Green Goddess salad, shares 6 new dietitian-approved crunchy, veggie-packed salads
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Kim Schewitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Read previewMelissa Ben-Ishay, the creator of the viral Green Goddess salad , believes that meals should be both nutrient-dense and delicious. Dilly Chicken Salad on ToastDilly Chicken Salad on toast. Make the dressing: Whisk together the lemon juice, mayonnaise, mustard, pickle juice, garlic, garlic powder, salt, and pepper in a small bowl. Scoop the chicken salad onto the bread with the lettuce and tomato and serve open-faced. Coffee Shop Sesame Chicken SaladCoffee Shop Sesame Chicken Salad.

Persons: —, Melissa Ben, Ishay, Sweets, Melissa, Ben, Ludlam, Raine, William Morrow, Ashley Sears, dill, Cook, Ashley Sears Ludlam, Shallot Vinaigrette, bok choy, bok, Ashley Sears Ben Organizations: Service, Business, HarperCollins Publishers, B12 Locations: New York City, tangier, Dijon, Fresh, dill, Kalamata

NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Dorsey, a former police and courts newspaper reporter who found lasting fame as the creator of the crime-comedy novel series starring Serge A. Storms, an energetic fan of Florida history and an ingenious serial killer, has died. Dorsey, who published 26 novels, died Sunday, according to Danielle Bartlett, a publicity director at William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. Fans of Dorsey appreciated his clever observations and satirical pokes at the weirdness of Florida. He was part of a trio of former newspapermen from Florida — including Dave Barry and Carl Hiaasen — who found a rich vein of absurdist humor in the state. “It was a privilege and honor to work with Tim Dorsey.

Persons: — Tim Dorsey, Serge A, Dorsey, Danielle Bartlett, William Morrow, Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen —, Tim Dorsey, Serge, Storms, Emily Krump, Coleman, Florida grifters, ”, “, ’ ”, Bruce DeSilva, Kurt Vonnegut, hasn’t, ” Dorsey, ___ Mark Kennedy Organizations: HarperCollins, Maltese, Torino, The Associated Press, “, Auburn University, The Alabama, The Tampa Tribune Locations: Florida, Tabasco, Indiana, Tribune’s Tallahassee

NEW YORK (AP) — Staring down a hefty holiday gift list? QUEER STYLE EXPLAINED: Pick up the book “dapperQ Style: Ungendering Fashion,” by Anita Dolce Vita. The editor in chief of the queer style magazine dapperQ has put together an enlightening collection of stories on style from the LGBTQ+ community. Queer style helps serve as a possibility model for who we can become.” These voices can help us all. FOOTBALL FAN FUN: “The Football 100,” by Mike Sando, Dan Pompei and The Athletic NFL staff.

Persons: —, gramps, ”, Dayna Isom Johnson, you've, Ototo, Kimora Lee Simmons, Anita Dolce Vita, Harper, Gund, Chase, Mike Sando, Dan Pompei, Tom Brady, William Morrow, Sakurai, Zane Navratil Organizations: The Athletic NFL, Union Square Wines, Sony Locations: Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, Skye, Japan, Hyde Park , New York, U.S, New York, Los Angeles, Nicaragua

☆ You May Not Have Asked; He Answered Anyway
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Dan Piepenbring | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I know that time travelers may have sunk the Titanic by visiting it in excessive numbers. By now you can see that “The Theory of Everything Else” is all over the map. Its broadness is mainly an asset — it makes the book suitable for beach reading or for mainlining before a dinner party. Schreiber brings a formidable amount of research to bear, and he’s careful never to mock any of his subjects, even those who may deserve it. But he’s sometimes too adept at quarantining the weirdness, too certain of where the rational ends and the irrational begins.

Persons: Schreiber, William McKinley, Nancy Reagan, Sylvester Stallone’s, Bram Stoker, Queen Elizabeth I, Dan Piepenbring, Charles Manson, Dan Schreiber, William Morrow Organizations: CIA Locations: Bermuda

☆ Her Novel Became a Best Seller. The Trouble: The Manuscript Was Stolen.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Amal El-Mohtar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

If this reads as a quite on-the-nose critique of contemporary conversations about race and appropriation, that’s because it is. It is in fact so obvious that it makes one wonder why Kuang uses the device of an unreliable narrator at all. Instead, June’s methodology is consistently to tell the reader her trespasses and offer flimsy justifications for them. These moments suggest the kinds of layers and intrigue the book could have maintained if it weren’t so committed to showing its hand. “Yellowface” is a kind of Art Monster story, but one that can’t allow room for ambiguity or revelation without rushing in to fill that space.

☆ A College Film Screening Stirred Michael Mann’s Desire to Make Movies
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Marc Myers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Michael Mann, 79, is a writer and director whose films include “Thief,” “Heat,” “Last of the Mohicans,” “Insider,” “Ali” and “Collateral,” and as a producer on “The Aviator,” “Hancock,” and “Ford v Ferrari.” He is the author of the new novel “Heat 2” (William Morrow). He spoke with Marc Myers. Just before my father shipped out to Europe in 1944 to fight in World War II, we were photographed together by my grandmother.

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