Book reviews written in 2013 by Brendan Tripp.
Titles covered in this volume are:
Savage Anxieties
Robert A. Williams, Jr.
The Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
A Writer's People
V.S. Naipaul
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Hypnosis Treatment Option
Scott D. Lewis
The Nazi Séance
Arthur J. Magida
Think Like Zuck
Ekaterina Walter
Pinterest Power
Jason Miles & Karen Lacey
The Fusion Marketing Bible
Lon Safko
Meatball Sundae
Seth Godin
Starting Over
Andy Serwer
The Mesh
Lisa Gansky
HTML5 For Dummies Quick Reference
Andy Harris
Relentless Innovation
Jeffrey Phillips
Life's Golden Ticket
Brendon Burchard
Let Go To Grow
Doug and Polly White
Skyscraper Facades of the Gilded Age
Joseph J. Korom, Jr.
The Seven Wisdoms of Life
Shai Tubali
Youtility
Jay Baer
China's Great Train
Abrahm Lustgarten
My Path Leads to Tibet
Sabriye Tenberken
To Live or to Perish Forever
Nicholas Schmidle
Exchanges Within
John Pentland
The Sense of Being Stared At
Rupert Sheldrake
The Quark and the Jaguar
Murray Gell-Mann
Miraculous Health
Dr. Rick Levy
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Promote Yourself
Dan Schawbel
From the Ground Up
Jeanne Nolan
Stop Talking, Start Communicating
Geoffrey Tumlin
Rock & Roll Jihad
Salman Ahmad
Fabricated
Hod Lipson & Melba Kurman
Marketing in the Round
Gini Dietrich & Geoff Livingston
QR Codes Kill Kittens
Scott Stratten
Manuscript Found in Accra
Paulo Coelho
The Human Voice
Anne Karpf
American on Purpose
Craig Ferguson
Permanent Emergency
Kip Hawley & Nathan Means
Dr. Faustus
Christopher Marlow
Likeable Business
Dave Kerpen
SuperFuel
Richard Martin
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook
Gary Vaynerchuk
Remote
Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
About the Author: Brendan Tripp began writing poetry in high school, continued into college, and expanded his writing in his years as a P.R. Executive and Publisher. He eventually settled into a pattern of writing 250 poems per year, and continued doing so for a dozen or so years in the 80's and 90's. Every year he'd produce a comb-bound collection of all of that year's output, and this new series of releases is replicating those collections, but in perfect-bound paperback editions. His better-known chapbooks were put out every couple of years, and were essentially "best of" collections featuring 10% of the 500 poems composed during a particular 2-year span. Eventually these will likely be pulled together into one volume and re-issued here as well. Brendan has been very active on-line from the very early years of the Web, and has published a good deal of his poetry on his blog, which he began in 2000. This, from time to time, included reading audios of various poems. Due to the large number of pieces involved, this has never been been systematically addressed, but that is an element that is being considered for future development, possibly through a Blog Talk Radio channel, or via YouTube videos. As is evident from even a cursory reading of Tripp's poetry, most of this is dark, brooding, anguished, and fraught with despair. Eventually the process of giving these sorts of inner states a physical form began to take a toll, creating something of a neuro-linguistic feedback loop of increasing morbidity, and around 2004 he took the dramatic step of no longer writing poetry on a regular basis. After having composed so much for so long, this came as quite a shock to Tripp's system, and the various publishing projects that he had in the works (including a web site with three decades' worth of poems) fell by the wayside. It was only in the past year, following his being hired to consult on a book project, that the idea of using one of the now easily-accessible on-demand publishing services (Amazon's "Create Space") came up, and he has begun the major process of developing new editions of these annual collections. While Brendan Tripp has no plans to resume writing poetry, he is quite interested in getting his "life's work" out there, both in print, and eventually in e-books and other media. Tripp lives in Chicago where he is a consulting Marketing Communications pro, and freelance writer. He can be found all over the Internet as "BTRIPP" (except for where he's not).
