Recent content from Curt Schleier
Review: The man who brought you 'Saturday Night Live' has had a wild life
Nonfiction: From Lily Tomlin to Michael Che, "Lorne" Michaels has worked with a lot of comic greats.
Review: Sailing family hunted sharks but met murderers and shipwreck instead
Nonfiction: Matthew Pearl turns from novels to the incredible story of the Walker family in "Save Our Souls."
Review: New book argues the late composer Stephen Sondheim's songs can teach us a lot about life
Nonfiction: Shows such as "A Little Night Music" and "Assassins" feature more than beautiful music.
Review: 'Bandit Heaven' brings wild, wild West back to life
Nonfiction: All the old John Wayne movies come to life in this fascinating tale of the last gasp of the wild, wild West.
We may soon have a new category for hurricanes, and that's bad news
NONFICTION: "Category Five" says those catastrophic events are commonly being eclipsed, because of climate crisis.
Book shows how intertwined history of man and 'The Horse' shaped our world
NONFICTION: Loving that new pair of jeans you bought? Thank a horse.
Give that man a trophy! Humorist Simon Rich amuses again with 'Glory Days'
NONFICTION: The Thurber Prize-winning writer of "New Teeth" and TV's "Miracle Worker" has a new humor collection.
Book says no jewel was safe when Texas' 'King of Diamonds' was in town
NONFICTION: He was the '60s answer to Cary Grant in "To Catch a Thief," but his jewel heists never were solved.
How Calvin Trillin mastered 'The Lede' and other annoyingly brilliant writing things
NONFICTION: The craft of reporting is raised to an art in a collection from the New Yorker writer.
Review: 'Silent Spring Revolution,' by Douglas Brinkley
NONFICTION: Historian charts the rise of the U.S. environmental movement.
Review: 'Dinners With Ruth,' by Nina Totenberg
NONFICTION: An ode to friendship between an NPR correspondent and a Supreme Court justice.
Review: 'The Long Way Home,' by Tom Montgomery Fate
NONFICTION: One man's journey in search of a spiritual home.
Review: 'Wastelands,' by Corban Addison
NONFICTION: Corporate profits vs. doing the right thing. No contest, as "Wastelands" shows us once again.
Review: 'The Treeline,' by Ben Rawlence
A deep dive into how global warming threatens the boreal forests — the loss of which threatens us all.
Review: 'The Correspondents,' by Judith Mackrell
Women writers fought bureaucracy and stereotypes to report from the front lines of World War II.
Review: 'Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk and the Bet of the Century,' by Tim Higgins
NONFICTION: A colorful and entertaining deep dive into Elon Musk's car company.
Review: 'The Code Breaker,' by Walter Isaacson
NONFICTION: A biography of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, and a cogent examination of the moral implications of her work.
