Phillip Green

Category: Book A Week

Just Read: One More Thing… by B.J. Novak

BJ Novak makes me want to be a better writer. He makes me want to care less and write more. One More Thing… is a selection of short stories ranging from single paragraphs about missed connections on the train, to epics about cereal box prize winners, with the rematch between the tortoise and the hare…

March 28, 2021
Just Read: Where do we go from here? Chaos, or community? By Martin Luther King, Jr.

I read this book in two distinct stages. The first chapter was slow going, and I put it down for a week or so. Partly because I was grappling with the question of how much a cliché of an ally it made me to read MLK during Black History Month, and partly because I just…

March 28, 2021
Just Read: A Promised Land by Barack Obama

I first started to generally care about things when I was 16 years old. I use the term “generally care about things,” in lieu of “got interested in politics” because I think there’s an important distinction there, and I think it’s a distinction that is not only becoming increasingly important as we grow more and…

March 14, 2021
What have I been reading & watching? January 2021 edition.

My monthly digest of what I’ve read and watched in January 2021.

February 3, 2021
Just Read: Why We’re Polarized – Ezra Klein

Why We’re Polarized tackles the nature of our ongoing fear and hostility toward the “other.”

January 16, 2021
Just Read- Ecocide: Kill The Corporation Before It Kills Us by David Whyte

If there is one lesson in humility that has stayed with me, and likely will continue to stay with me for the rest of my life, it is the one taught to me by Ms. Reid, my English teacher from age 13-16. We had been set a class essay on a Shakespeare play; I forget…

January 3, 2021