Susan Arnold

Meaningful work is something to which we all aspire, but about which surprisingly little is known. The authors undertook an interview-based study involving 135 individuals in 10 very different occupations to find out which factors foster meaningfulness in work and which destroy it. They found that meaningfulness is different from other work-related attitudes such as engagement, in that meaningfulness tends to be intensely personal and individual....

A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

Based on the memoirs of Franz Lidz, Unstrung Heroes is the story of Stephen, a young boy in New York during the 1960s who, in an effort to cope with an emotionally distant father and his mother's illness, goes to live with his three wildly eccentric uncles. By moving into the funny, magical and sometimes painful world of his uncles, Stephen grows up and gains self-confidence. Finally, comforted by his uncles' idiosyncratic love, Stephen is able to...