Authors and Books to Consider

http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Fiction

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/

G.K. Chesterton - Shrewd business tactics

"In the heart of a plutocracy tradesmen become cunning enough to be more fastidious than their customers.   They positively create difficulties so that their wealthy and weary clients may spend money and diplomacy in overcoming them.  If there were a fashionable hotel in London which no man could enter who was under six foot, society would meekly make up parties of six-foot men to dine in it.  If there were an expensive restaurant which by a mere caprice of its proprietor was only open on Thursday afternoon, it would be crowded on Thursday afternoon."  G.K. Chesterton (Father Brown - The Queer Feet)

N.D. Wilson -- Trouble Makers

The first time I posted this link it was to something else.  I think this will work now. 
http://www.canonwired.com/featured/trouble-makers/

Fruit, the Devil, and Texas

Today someone at work had an Osage Orange he brought from home.  The trees are native to Texas and have the highest BTU of any wood in this part of the world when burned.  It reminded me of an old Texan folk song called The Devil Made Texas.  Here's a link to the fruit and the song.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_orange

http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/usa/devlmade.htm

A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty

Stumbled across this in Smithsonian while waiting in the lobby of the dentist today.  I'll pile it up on all the other stuff I have linked to.

  http://books.google.com/books?id=1HoFAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

On the Power of Sound

Here's a bit of poetry from William Wordsworth worth trying to figure out.  The ending is very thought provoking.

http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww746.html