The ADHD Series: Working with the brain you have
Working with the brain you have. Two books on ADHD in the places least built to accommodate it.
Tag: Research (Page 13)
ResearchLived: Two memoirs, one inherited and one first-hand
Two memoirs, one inherited and one first-hand. A prisoner of war camp, and a childhood that had to be survived.
ResearchWriting: Craft, explained instead of gestured at
Craft, explained instead of gestured at. Two books on the advice writers are handed without anybody unpacking it.
ResearchPhilosophy: A framework offered on its merits
A framework offered on its merits. One book, arguing the separation between divine and human is a misunderstanding.
Cold WarYuri Bezmenov and the Four Stages of Subversion
In 1984 a former Soviet propagandist described four stages for taking a country apart: demoralize a generation, destabilize its institutions, manufacture a crisis, normalize what follows. He said the first stage was already finished in America.
Book LaunchSteamy Lit, Tampa: A Romance Bookstore With an Open Submission Form
Steamy Lit is a romance-only bookstore on South MacDill Avenue, founded by Melissa Saavedra, a Latina Navy veteran who built the reading community on Instagram before opening a shop. It publishes an open submission form for authors, which almost no…
Book MarketingWho Hosts Author Events in Tampa Bay
Roughly a dozen venues in this region run regular literary programming, and they want completely different things. Tombolo runs a national author calendar. Largo Public Library hosted fifteen hundred people for a romance festival. The Gilded Page rents its back…
FamilyWhat to Do With a Box of Unlabelled Photographs
Almost every family has a box and almost nobody opens it, because the job looks enormous and the photographs are unlabelled. The order that works is stabilise, sort roughly, label with the people who still remember, scan what matters, and…
NonfictionMojo Books & Records, Tampa: Nineteen Years From a Nook
Mojo Books and Records near USF is Tampa's largest used and new book and record store, about forty-five hundred square feet, running since 2007. Books, vinyl, an artisan coffee bar, and a buying counter open noon to six every day…
Book MarketingYou Have Eleven Hours of Audio. Now What?
You recorded the interviews. That was the part with a deadline on it. What you have now is eleven hours of somebody talking, and it will not become a book by sitting on a drive. Transcribe, index, find the spine,…
LibrariesWest St. Petersburg Library: Eight in the Morning, Playground in the Lot
West St. Petersburg Community Library opens at eight in the morning and runs until eight at night Monday through Thursday, twelve-hour days four times a week. It has a fenced playground with a turf surface in the library lot, which…
HistoryThe Tampa Bay History Museums Writers Never Use
Heritage Village in Largo holds 3,500 volumes, 8,500 photographs and 20,000 artifacts and has been collecting since 1961. Dunedin holds a searchable run of its newspaper from 1924 to 1965. Across the bay sit the Tampa Bay History Center, the…