Reading as a Hassle

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Reading as a Hassle

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Reading as a Hassle

Thoughts on the challenge of the client who hires a writer and then refuses to read

Scott Holleran

Feb 18, 2025

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Read the original article, published on my LinkedIn newsletter, The Scout, the basis for this episode, here.

Podcast: Book Review: Iron Pioneer

Scott Holleran

December 5, 2023

Reading Iron Pioneer: Henry W. Oliver 1840 to 1904 by Henry Oliver Evans (1942, Dutton and Company) affords an account of another world—during the climax of the Industrial Revolution—through the life and times of Pittsburgh’s perfect capitalist. Beginning with a phrase in Latin, ending with a poem by Tennyson and logging main lines, this family narrative about a forgotten titan both concretizes and explains the archetypical American industrialist. This one’s a tall, slender, self-made man of ability named Henry Oliver. You’ve probably not heard of Mr. Oliver unless you’re from

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Book Review: Attached

Scott Holleran

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Reading Attached—a short, 2011 self-help reading divergence—gives me romantic love clues. This honest book hinges upon a psychological idea formulated in the 1950s called attachment theory. It’s based upon a test of toddlers entering a playroom with other toddlers. Each child is accompanied by the mother.

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Book Review: Stalinism as a Way of Life

Scott Holleran

November 8, 2021

Yale University Press published a book of 157 documents from the world’s bloodiest dictatorship 21 years ago today. Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents, edited by Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov is a valued resource. Of course, the title, intended to contribute to Yale’s

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Book Review: Billy Wilder on Assignment

Scott Holleran

November 14, 2021

Billy Wilder’s movies include Sabrina, The Lost Weekend, Stalag 17, Love in the Afternoon, The Spirit of St. Louis, Witness for the Prosecution and Double Indemnity. This year’s new book on the fabled director, Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

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Book Review: Last Call

Scott Holleran

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Written 10 years before the initiation of American lockdown, Daniel Okrent’s Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition contains essential facts and rare disclosures about Prohibition. This comprehensive account, highly researched, noted, indexed, with pages of photographs and published in 2010 by Simon & Schuster, is both credible and well written. Author Okrent, an editor for

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Books: Can You Really Love a Dog?

Scott Holleran

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A new book bundles thoughts, ideas and advice by Leonard Peikoff and Ayn Rand on pets. Can You Really Love a Dog?, which I’ve had the pleasure to edit, is edited, published and presented by Capitalist Pig fund manager Jonathan Hoenig.

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