by John M. DeMarco | Sep 3, 2021 | Books I Recommend
Storytelling (Including Marketing and Mythology) Hutchens, David, Story Dash! McRay, Michael T., I Am Not Your Enemy: Stories to Transform a Divided World Jiwa, Bernadette, Story Driven Corn, Lisa, Story Genius Drake, David B, Narrative Coaching: The Definitive Guide...
by John M. DeMarco | Aug 1, 2020 | Books I Recommend
I love to read books and, if you’re here, you probably do as well…or you’d like to get more into the habit of reading. It doesn’t matter if you prefer paperback books, hardcover books, audio books, or e-books; books are essential, because...
by John M. DeMarco | Jul 5, 2020 | Books I Recommend, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Meaning
“We were eight years in power,” said South Carolina congressman Thomas Miller in 1895, as white politicians, falsely accusing Reconstruction’s Black leadership of corruption and incompetency, passed new laws that fully restored white supremacy....
by John M. DeMarco | Jul 5, 2020 | Books I Recommend, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Meaning
“We might think of whiteness as all the aspects of being white,” Robin DiAngelo writes, “aspects that go beyond mere physical differences and are related to the meaning and resultant material advantage of being defined as white in society: what is...
by John M. DeMarco | Jun 28, 2020 | Books I Recommend
Bearing 511 pages of text supported by nearly 70 pages of footnotes, Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped From the Beginning (Bold Type Books, 2017) is, for me, not an “alternative” American history but THE American history. Kendi, founding director of the Boston University...
by John M. DeMarco | Jan 8, 2019 | Books I Recommend, Storytelling
Writers are influenced and shaped by the literature of other writers. And while the books of one’s youth and young adulthood are most prominent in this formation process, writers continue to grow and evolve across a lifetime as they discover additional...
