Cohen Miles-Rath (Mending Reality: An Advocate’s Existential Journey with Mental Health) is a mental health advocate, author, and suicide prevention professional. Cohen joins Armchair Expert to discuss growing up between two wildly different households in upstate New York, finding his footing as a distance runner while becoming the first in his family to go to
TV writer and Producer Melinda Hsu’s two decades of experience in the business taught her a lot about dysfunctional work cultures. In Lead with Kindness (Post Hill, June), she shares what she’s learned about humane, effective leadership. Click here to read the full article. Click here to learn more about the book.
Had it been possible, Bill Keenan would have given his tutu, tights and bloody socks a fist bump. His injured ballerina costume had grabbed the attention of Olivia MacKinnon, an actual ballerina dressed as Barbie, during a 2019 Halloween party to the point that the pretend dancer and real one chatted for 15 pleasant minutes.
Hollywood Ventures Group has optioned Namratha Stanley’s memoir, Vineyard Melody, for a film adaptation. The deal closed during the Cannes Film Festival. Published by Regalo Press, the memoir follows Stanley from a decade-plus of domestic abuse in Bangalore to the vineyards of Bordeaux. The turning point comes when a violent attack by her husband nearly
Helen Smith, a licensed psychologist with over 20 years in the field with an emphasis in clinical and forensic psychology, has published a new book: His Side: Men Speak Out on Dating, Marriage, and Life in America. Released in February, it offers a follow-up to her book that came out in 2013, Men on Strike.
On Nov. 2, 2023, I lost my husband Andy in a Humvee accident during an Army Reserve training exercise in Virginia. He was a captain. He was four months shy of his 28th birthday. We had a 17-month-old daughter named Adalyn, we were in the middle of building a home, and we had just received
Watch to this fascinating interview with Phyllis Karas, New York Times bestseller, who speaks about her latest book, The Curse of the Blumenthals, a book about tragedy and violence that struck this Jewish family, and how love was able to stop the curse. Click here to view the video. Click here to learn more about
I’ve been called intense. Dramatic. In Montana, I started to see it in the context that I am a cowboy at heart. I’m a force. And eventually I stopped trying to shrink myself into a palatable draft. That last time a drizzle man told me to be easy and breezy, I looked him dead in
Few figures in American politics have had as long, varied and distinguished a career in public life as Lamar Alexander. The Tennessee Republican was a White House and Senate aide, served two terms as governor, was president at the University of Tennessee, education secretary for President George H.W. Bush and then capped it all off
When British gossip columnist Rob Shuter was working as a publicist for Kate Spade in the early 2000s, his client would purchase the latest issue of Vogue or Vanity Fair at the airport when they traveled. As Spade giggled in her first-class seat, Shuter asked what could possibly be so funny in the magazine. The
In an interview with A&E, Sheryl “Mac” McCollum, discusses her work on the case which has culminated in the new book Swans Don’t Swim in a Sewer. McCollum—also the host of the Zone 7 podcast that played a role in revitalizing the search into Melissa’s murder—shares with A&E Crime + Investigation why this case intrigued
Investigator Sheryl “Mac” McCollum joins us to break down her new book, “Swans Don’t Swim in a River,” which documents when a serial killer’s daughter is brutally murdered…he asks McCollum to team up to catch her killer. And she does. Click here to view the video. Click here to learn more about the book.
NY Post staffer Jeanette Settembre’s new novel, Little Red Flags, is based on a dark romance. Settembre’s summer fling in the Hamptons turned dark when her lover killed two in a drunk driving crash. She secretly visited him in prison, struggled with his control, then broke free to heal. Click here to read the full
Amy King, Mother, Author of Saying It Out Loud and a Gold Star Spouse, joined Fox 5 DC. Click here to view the video. Click here to learn more about the book.
On Good Morning America, the journalist discusses her new book exploring how news, entertainment and digital platforms shape views of crime, victims and justice. Click here to view the video. Click here to learn more about the book.
On Good Morning America, Sesame Workshop CEO, Sherrie Rollins Westin, discusses What I Learned From Mom, a collection highlighting the lasting impact of mothers. Click here to view the video. Click here to learn more about the book.
Move over The Devil Wears Prada — there’s a sharper insider tale in town. In It Started With A Whisper, media veteran and gossip columnist Rob Shuter — who also serves as the Editor-at-Large at Star‘s sister publication, The Daily Enquirer — pulls back the curtain on celebrity culture, revealing a world where charm masks
The first image readers will see before opening Jupiter resident Charles Modica’s upcoming memoir, Docs on the Bay: The Dream That Became America’s Most Unlikely Medical School, is its cover. The author is being carried through the ocean on the shoulders of five young men. Those men were members of the first graduating class of
In this episode of The Podcast with a Thousand Faces, Cassidy joins JCF’s Joanna Gardner for a rich and personal conversation on the power of storytelling, the influence of Joseph Campbell, and the meaning of following your bliss. Together, they explore how our struggles can become sources of strength, and how the hero’s journey can
Pam Sherman can often stump a CEO of a major company by asking this one simple question: What’s one word you’d use to define yourself? While the answer comes easily to some, for others, thinking about who they are deep down is an exercise they’ve missed or avoided. That exercise, though, Sherman argues, is essential
Attorney Alan Dershowitz’s bestselling 2003 book The Case for Israel was flawed from the get-go by the fact that its author is Jewish and American. This is a topic best handled by an insider – and not a Jew, but an Arab. An Arab with intellectual curiosity, integrity, courage, and journalistic expertise. Lebanese-Iraqi journalist and
For Fox News, Randal Teague, author of Jesus and His Fishermen: The Untold Story, writes: Palm Sunday just passed and Easter is upon us. We know the scriptural accounts. We’ve heard them many times. But this year, we might look for something more — the rest of the story. When Jesus first called Peter, Peter
Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from The DNA of a Doctor: How Upbringing, Culture, and Unbridled Ambition Curates Achievement (Post Hill Press, 2026) Both of my grandmothers, living in two separate small villages in India miles apart from each other, had each secretly become believers in Jesus. At that time, in that environment, it was
The surprise in Jonathan Leaf’s The Primate Myth is that our relationship to the apes may be more distant than we think. The stakes are higher than when we play a round of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. If we are closest to the apes above all creatures, then we must, the evolutionary logic goes,
Cohen Miles-Rath heard voices telling him to kill his father. After they passed, he spent years retracing the path of his delusions. When Cohen Miles-Rath walks into his father’s house, the history of his psychosis is right there in front of him. There is the place where he was standing when he received a cryptic