Don’t expect to party with Pat Kiernan: NY1’s morning news anchor wakes up at 3 so he can be at work by 4 a.m. So he was the perfect pick to write “Good Morning, City,” about the early hours of his beloved adopted city.
“It started with a Twitter conversation,” the Canadian-born father of two told The Post. “A children’s book editor said something like, ‘If you have want to write a children’s book, let me know.’ And I responded, ‘If you have an idea for it, let ME know.’ We met and brainstormed, and this is what happened.”
Mornings aside, Kiernan says his favorite cameo was in “Night at the Museum.” Here’s what’s in his library.
Duff’s a fellow Canadian who was at The Wall Street Journal before he turned to writing books. This one’s about the failure of “shareholder capitalism” and focuses on Harvard Business School. When business school students conclude that profit is the only result that matters, he argues, our society will fail in its moral obligation to help others.
For about four years, I’ve been hearing snippets from my friend Stacey about a couple that [moves] from the city to the suburbs. I finally got my hands on a copy. Key takeaway: There’s a lot more going on out there than just mowing the lawn.
I like my novels to teach me a little something. Jeffrey Archer’s books fill that need perfectly. Here you learn about the shipping industry during the heyday of transatlantic crossings and the building of the Titanic. It’s not a deep historical read, but he takes care to get the facts right.
The first message of this book is: Washington will not prioritize the environment in 2017. The second: We can do it without them. Bloomberg and Pope give dozens of examples of businesses and cities making key policy changes to save the planet, often at little expense. We don’t need Washington to fix natural-gas pipes!
