Staff Picks
Porchlight is a company filled with voracious readers—talented, creative individuals who know books, and who excel at moving them. Whenever we can, we like to do that by telling you about the books we’re reading.
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A Q&A with Geoff Colvin, Author of Humans Are Underrated
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Geoff Colvin answers a few of our questions about how humans are underrated in an age of rapid technological advancement.
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The Superhuman Mind: Free the Genius in Your Brain
Book Review by Porchlight
Berit Brogaard and Kristian Marlow provide tricks and tools to tap the higher mental abilities we usually associate with savants.
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How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
Book Review by Porchlight
Stephen Witt's tale of the music business is one of technological disruption, piracy, and an old industry coming into the modern age.
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Television is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age
Book Review by Ryan Schleicher
Michael Wolff's new book details why the television industry, despite presentation changes, still reigns supreme.
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Muse: A Novel: A Review
Book Review by Porchlight
Jonathan Galassi, the President of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, gives us a beautiful tale of publishing and poetry, and the important difference between the two.
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The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
Not unexpectedly, there are plenty of leadership lessons, or perhaps warnings, one can draw out of these two Booker Prize winning novels about Thomas Cromwell's 'reign' as King Henry the VIII's primary advisor.
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The Perfection of the Paper Clip: Curious Tales of Invention, Genius, and Stationary Obsession
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
James Ward weaves a narrative of invention, entrepreneurship, and sometimes empire through the everyday objects all around us.
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What is your favorite summer reading?
Book Review by Blyth Meier
Our staff picks summer reading—what they recommend, what they are looking forward to, and what they just cleared their decks to pay attention to.
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The Great Disruption: How Business Is Coping with Turbulent Times
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Adrian Woolridge's Shumpeter column for The Economist has been mined for the best material and published as a book.
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The Fly Trap
Book Review by Porchlight
Swedish entomologist Fredrik Sjöberg shares ruminations born from a life spent collecting, cataloging, and studying one very specific creature.
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