We Recommend: Illumination
Rejection, Tony Tulathimutte, ’05, MS ’06; William Morrow. Dark, memorable tales propelled by the psychological fallout of scorn and self-condemnation.
10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation—and Making Your Own Life Easier, David Yeager, MA ’10, PhD ’11; Avid Reader Press. First, don’t tell them what to do: A mentor mindset can tear down walls and build up trust.
The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder, Robert I. Sutton, professor emeritus of management science and engineering, and Huggy Rao, professor at the Graduate School of Business; St. Martin’s Press. Learn to clear obstacles and loosen organizational knots, for moguls and managers alike.
This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist’s Path from Grief to Wonder, Alan Townsend, PhD ’94; Grand Central Publishing. Facing catastrophic loss, a husband and father finds connections between scientific inquiry and spirituality.
Colored Television, Danzy Senna, ’92; Riverhead Books. A lucky-break career pivot into TV writing spins a novelist madly off course in this literary-fictional laser light show.
Once More from the Top: A Novel, Emily Layden, ’11; Mariner Books. With her spotless image at risk, a pop star grapples with loss and questions when her long-missing childhood best friend is found dead.
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine, Daniel J. Levitin, ’79; W.W. Norton & Co. Stories and studies of the complex human biological response to melody, harmony, and rhythm, from a neuroscientist and musician.
