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Pithy Summary – Bulletin #52

The Non-fiction Feature: Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
The Children’s Spot: Endlessly Ever After by Laurel Snyder and Dan Santat
The Product Spot: stickK

Posted bypithysummaryMarch 2, 2026March 2, 2026Posted inArchives, Bulletins

Pithy Summary – Bulletin #51

The Non-fiction Feature: Presumed Guilty by Erwin Chemerinsky
The Memoir Spot: Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino & Ronald Cotton & Erin Torneo
The Product Spot: Innocence Project

Posted bypithysummaryJanuary 9, 2026January 9, 2026Posted inArchives, Bulletins

Pithy Summary – Bulletin #50

The Non-fiction Feature: Endure by Alex Hutchinson
The Memoir Spot: Just Add Water by Katie Ledecky
The Product Spot: Ted Lasso

Posted bypithysummaryDecember 4, 2025December 4, 2025Posted inArchives, Bulletins

Pithy Summary – Bulletin #49

The Non-fiction Feature: Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
The Fiction Spot: 2054 by Elliot Ackerman & Admiral James Stavridis
The Product Spot: NatGeo Geography page

Posted byCarlenOctober 13, 2025October 13, 2025Posted inArchives, Bulletins

Pithy Summary – Bulletin #47

The Non-fiction Feature: The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Memoir Spot: The Undying by Anne Boyer
The Product Spot: Cancer screening tests

Posted byCarlenJuly 27, 2025July 27, 2025Posted inArchives, Bulletins

Pithy Summary – Bulletin #46

The Non-fiction Feature: When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe
The Memoir Spot: The Management Myth by Matthew Stewart
The Product Spot: ProPublica – McKinsey’s Rules

Posted byCarlenJune 9, 2025June 9, 2025Posted inArchives, Bulletins

Pithy Summary – Bulletin #45

The Non-fiction Feature: Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan
The Children’s Spot: The Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Larry Gonick & Woollcott Smith
The Product Spot: Khan Academy

Posted byCarlenMay 2, 2025May 2, 2025Posted inArchives, Bulletins

Pithy Summary – Bulletin #43

The Non-fiction Feature: Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
The Fiction Spot: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Product Spot: Foreign Affairs (magazine/website)

Posted byCarlenFebruary 3, 2025February 3, 2025Posted inArchives, Bulletins

Pithy Summary – Bulletin #40

The Non-fiction Feature: Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
The Memoir Spot: The Girls Who Went Away – Ann Fessler
The Product Spot: UN Women Data Hub

Posted byCarlenSeptember 12, 2024September 12, 2024Posted inArchives, Bulletins

The Monthly Bulletin: July 2024

The Non-fiction Feature: The Beast by Oscar Martinez;
The Children’s Spot: Mama’s Nightingale by Edwidge Danticat;
The Product Spot: El Faro – Latin America’s first native internet newspaper

Posted byCarlenJuly 8, 2024July 8, 2024Posted inArchives, Bulletins

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