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...advice for parents on how to bequeath to their children not just a fat inheritance, but also the values and work ethic that produced their nest eggs in the first place. "So many wealthy families don't know anything about raising kids in a healthy environment," says Thayer Willis, author of Navigating the Dark Side of Wealth: A Life Guide for Inheritors. The daughter of multimillion-dollar parents herself, Willis says she was a "spoiled brat" in her youth. She quit jobs whenever things didn't go her way and spent money without limits - until she realized this...
...Willis, the author and reformed spoiled brat, stresses that children need to experience the lives of the less fortunate to develop a "grateful spirit." She advises finding charitable causes for kids and ensuring that they see the results of their philanthropy. By researching different programs and working with a team of volunteers, youngsters can gain valuable perspective on how the rest of the world lives and how better to prioritize their own "give-save-spend ratio," says Willis. Helping others is a powerful tool for teaching children about sacrifice and detachment from material things, she says...
Another molecular tome, The Big Fat Duck Cookbook (Bloomsbury USA; $250), includes recipes like nitro-scrambled egg-and-bacon ice cream that are probably out of reach for amateurs. But, says author Heston Blumenthal, whose Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, England, got three stars from Michelin, "we still have lots of little bits and techniques people can pull out and use at home," like poaching potatoes before frying for crisper chips. Blumenthal, by the way, is not fond of the term molecular gastronomy, which he thinks sounds élitist. "Everything in cooking is chemical," he says. "Water is a chemical...
From that suspended moment--with the smell of revelation in the air but the actual article nowhere to be found, as if the author had accidentally left it in his other coat--2666 tacks sideways into the mind of a philosophy professor who teaches in Santa Teresa and may slowly be going insane, and then again into another genre entirely, a hard-boiled yarn about a journalist sent to Santa Teresa from New York City to cover a boxing match. It becomes clear only in the book's fourth section that Bolańo is performing these lateral leaps the better...
...Boyle The jacket depicts nothing but three brilliantly white teeth and a lip—an extreme close-up of the corner of somebody’s mouth. The image is mildly grotesque, even shocking. But, turning the novel over, one finds an equally strange image: Boyle, the author, staring solemnly out from a photograph, a tuft of dyed hair falling across his forehead. Is this the 59-year-old author or a “Gossip Girl” character wannabe? We’ll hold off on that question. Instead, let’s pose this one: what...