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...result is something more than the usual self-help guff. What Should I Do with My Life? is closer to the oral histories of Studs Terkel or This American Life than to Tony Robbins. What ties Bronson's subjects together is that most of them never got that Pauline postcard, that mystical memo telling them what they were here for. They had to figure it out the hard way. Many pulled courageous, tire-screeching, midcareer 180s, like the miserable marine biologist who threw away his Ph.D. to become a deliriously happy dentist, or the hard-charging vice president at First...
Bronson doesn't have Terkel's gift for conveying character through dialogue, and he can be very, very earnest. It would try the patience of a saint--be it St. Paul or St. Elmo--to listen to the overachieving ballet dancer--runway model--M.B.A. who moans on and on about how empty her life is. Maybe Bronson puts up with it because, even with the hopeless narcissists, he knows he's on the trail of something real: by and large, the interviews are scarily honest, with people sweating and crying and popping antidepressants as they fight to find themselves...
SURVIVAL STORIES This collection of 21 fire-fighting tales due out in July includes stories by Sebastian Junger, John McPhee, Studs Terkel and Sallie Tisdale...
...Studs Terkel was born in 1912, the year the Titanic went down. In his long career, he has been an actor, a disc jockey, a sports commentator and a television and radio host. He also pioneered the field of popular oral history in 11 books, including Working and The Good War, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Recently he discussed with TIME the new kind of challenge he tackles in his latest book of interviews, Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth and Hunger for a Faith, to be published this month by New Press...
...Terkel is "as filling as a cheesecake," said Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot, professor of education at the Graduate School of Education...