Wonderful new book

I love hearing your book recommendations, so I thought I'd share one of my own. Right now I'm reading the fantastic new graphic memo...

Sibling Rivalry: 5 tricks and tips

Before our second baby was born, I was on pins and needles. Would the children play together? Would they be jealous? Would they fight? I wa...

The crazy things you do as a parent

The new book This is Ridiculous This is Amazing features one dad's 71 hilarious lists about parenthood—from "Things We've Goog...

Encouragement

I've been a little sick this week ( curses, hay fever! ), but when I saw this passage from Anne Lamott (one of my heroes), it really re...

Summer reading

At the airport this weekend, I picked up a copy of  The Fault in Our Stars , the story of a sixteen-year-old cancer patient named Hazel, who...

The best no-brainer advice

When I read BJ Novak's hilarious book of short stories months ago, one story really stuck out... Read More >

NYC tips and etiquette

The book NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette , which came out yesterday, made me laugh. New York is so weird! It's funny how he managed to noti...

An app for speed reading

Have you heard about Spritz , the app that helps people read more quickly? According to Spritz, while reading, you spend only 20% of your ti...

Motherhood Mondays: Baby food...an epiphany!

When our first child, Toby , was little, we didn't know what to feed him. We didn't love baby-food jars, but we felt exhausted and o...

A phone call with B.J. Novak (!)

I'm so excited to tell you that this week, I was lucky enough to chat with this bearded fellow! Here's how our conversation went dow...

B.J. Novak's brilliant book

Have you read B.J. Novak's new book, One More Thing ? I knew it would be funny, but I was surprised to find how beautiful, wise and poig...

The Goldfinch

Have you read any good books recently? My friend Megan just emailed me with a recommendation: "If you're looking for something grea...

What are your favorite books for little dudes?

Three-and-a-half-year-old Toby has a bunch of books, but he has read them all so many times that they're literally falling apart. So his...

Gift idea: Photo books for kids

This past Father's Day, we made Toby a board book about his adventures with Daddy. He LOVED the book and still reads it all the time. S...

Scratch-and-sniff wine book

Richard Betts is one of a couple hundred master sommeliers in the world, but he’s not a snob. He actually believes that “wine is a grocery, ...

Bookish print

This print from San Francisco's BOOK/SHOP made me smile. 

Great new book

My friend Ann just wrote a wonderful memoir— Mastering the Art of French Eating —which came out today. I read it while breastfeeding Anton t...

Let's talk about books...

Awesome People Reading is an addictive tumblr. My friend Samantha's book, Well-Read Women , comes out today! She illustrated fifty wate...