What I see when I get a moment to pause and make a little sense of the world
In honor of spring, I’m thrilled to bring you an interview with the delightful Christie Purifoy, who talked to me about her new book, A Home in Bloom: Four Enchanted Seasons with Flowers (due out April 11th, but you can preorder the book today).
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These titles are challenging where others are pandering, and open-minded where others are prescriptive. Any book can be a self-help book, depending on how it’s read. Political pamphlets, epic poems, and contemporary novels can all offer insight into how to live—or how not to.
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The self-help and health sections of a bookstore can be hard to navigate, so we asked experts like Adam Grant, Lori Gottlieb and Mary Roach what they read.
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End-of-year lists are by nature subjective, and selecting books in this way can be particularly hard. Tens of thousands of titles are published annually in the U.S., and a reader’s time is finite. We can digest only so much. Every publication, every jury making such judgments, has a filter.
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Brian Blount’s Then the Whisper Put on Flesh was a watershed read for me. The book overtly reads the ethic of the Gospels for what it can do for African Americans. It exploits the text while it affirms it and at times claims it falls short of the fullness of liberation.
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We make things and seed them into the world, never fully knowing — often never knowing at all — whom they will reach and how they will blossom in other hearts, how their meaning will unfold in contexts we never imagined. (W.S.
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I always find it hard to list the books that have influenced me the most. Memory is tricky, and a work can assert its influences over my thinking long after I’ve forgotten its particular details, or even its title.
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Front Porch Reflections 