Listening to Po Bronson talk about his BookTransitions BookPlace, Chicago IL
First, a very brief introduction. In case you are not very familiar with this author, Po Bronson, it was his 3rd book "Nudist on the Late shift" a great collection of pieces in the height of the dot-com days that really brought him to the attention of the internet literati. (It was also the first Po Bronson book that I read.) His website is well worth checking out.
His next book, What Should I Do With My Life was a departure of sorts from his earlier style. In that book, he delves into the question of the book's title with a disarming frankness. The tone is very different from that of the Silicon-valley-dot-com-craze-fanning "Nudist" book. I got the "What Should I Do" book because I had loved Po's literary style in Nudist, (plus the title What Should I Do is rather compelling) but I read the book because of the power of the stories in them.
He's followed up this book with his latest book, Why Do I Love These People?, similar in vein to the What Should I Do book. I read "Why Do I Love" in the Fall of 2005, and was lucky enough to learn that Po would be reading and presenting live in Chicago in January of 2006. I will post about the experience of listening to Po share his stories in my next posts.
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