Book of the Week: MY STROKE OF LUCK by Kirk Douglas
The actor’s serious 2003 stroke unexpectedly improves his life.
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Book of the Week: A PATCHWORK PLANET by Anne Tyler
A young man with a criminal past tries to make amends.
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Book of the Week: THE EDUCATION OF HARRIET HATFIELD by May Sarton
A sixty-year-old bookshop owner is threatened for being a lesbian.
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Movie of the Month: Duel
While driving across country, an electronic sales man is taunted, tormented, and teased by an unseen driver, who follows closely behind. Dennis Weaver stars in Steven Spielberg’s directing debut.
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January 2020 Book Recommendations
A curated list of books and literary classics for your reading pleasure by David Bruce Smith Publications.
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Book of the Week: NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarity
A tranquil 10-day spa visit turns into terror.
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Book of the Week: NEARING 90 AND OTHER COMEDIES OF LATE LIFE by Judith Viorst
A poet’s sobering look at mortality.
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Patriotic Picks: December 2019
Whether it’s via their tone, topic, or tenor, certain works just say “America.” Here are three such titles, suggested by David Bruce Smith, founder of the Grateful American Foundation, in partnership with the Washington Independent Review of Books.
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Author David Bruce Smith and Julie Silverbrook of ConSource Discuss Abigail & John
Abigail & John is the inaugural book in the Grateful American Book Series, which focuses on presidential and historical marriages that were partnerships, and influenced the nation.
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Book of the Week: LET’S JUST SAY IT WASN’T PRETTY by Diane Keaton
How the actress got to a comfortable self-image.
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“Abigail & John” American History Profoundly Portrayed in a Children’s Book
ACTA’s Michael Poliakoff joins David Bruce Smith, co-founder of the Grateful American Book Prize, and Martha Meehan Cohen of the Supreme Court Historical Society, to explore the narrative of our nation’s most influential early couple.
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Book of the Week: MRS. NIXON: A NOVELIST IMAGINES A LIFE by Ann Beattie
The elusive first lady, and how she might have lived.