His rowdy memoir Dilettante is an indelible portrait of the magazine biz in its prime and the most star-studded coming-of-age story you’ll ever read.” – Caleb Bissinger, Senior Director of Audio. He bounced Donald Trump from parties, smoked pot with Seth Rogen, and rose to become the magazine’s deputy editor. Brown remained at Vanity Fair for twenty-five years. “In the early nineties, Graydon Carter, the legendary editor of Vanity Fair, hired an unlikely assistant: Dana Brown, a 21-year-old college dropout who couldn’t type or tie a tie. View on Amazonĭilettante: True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster
“ The Candy House, the latest novel from Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan, is extraordinary-it’s both a deeply empathetic journey into the minds of a series of wildly different characters whose lives intersect, and a prescient commentary on what it means to be human in an age of superhuman technology.” – Rufus Griscom, CEO & Next Big Idea Podcast Host. Listen to our exclusive audio e-course, read by author Susan Cain, in the Next Big Idea App Susan Cain looked at a part of my temperament that I thought I needed to fix or hide, and by shining a light on the engine of power melancholia can be, she taught me how to embrace it as a paradoxically positive thing of beauty in and of itself, as well as a part of my own beauty.” – Ania Szczesniewski, Assistant Editor. I’ve often made playlists of sad songs, expressly to give myself space to cry and release the pressure from trying to keep all those bittersweet reactions at bay, and out of public sight. “I always thought my draw towards the melancholy, and my tendencies to fall into sorrow over moments of beauty-like sways of tree branches, the draft of a passing train, or the smell of my mother’s hair-were feelings to struggle against, which I should reorient to pure positivity. “Just like from reading Susan Cain’s first book Quiet, Bittersweet helped me reframe what I thought of as weaknesses into sources of strength.” – Chris Chaput, VP of Product Read on to discover which books of 2022 we recommend most highly.īittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole This year we checked out literally hundreds of titles, but for each of us there was a single book that became a new favorite. We at the Next Big Idea Club love books-and good thing we do, because it’s our job to read them and share them with the world.
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