More in ‘Mitch Albom’

Sundown: Bernie, She Hardly Knew Ya

Circus prayer, Vegas Jews, and a pushy Frenchman
By Hadara Graubart | 5:29 PM Jun 30, 2009

• “When you spend hundreds of millions of dollars with someone, you think you know him.” Comedian Andy Borowitz imagines a more satisfying apology from Ruth Madoff. [HuffPo]
• French president Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly advised Israeli P.M. Netanyahu to ditch his ultra-right-wing foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman in favor of centrist Tzipi Livni. Although this bold suggestion ...

Books

The Middle-American Way of Death

A lesson Mitch Albom never learned from Morrie
By Stephen Vider | 11:22 AM Oct 17, 2006

At the beginning of For One More Day, Mitch Albom’s latest sermon on life, death, and the realms beyond, fallen baseball star Charles “Chick” Benetto attempts suicide. One white light later, he finds himself reunited and running errands with his dead mother, Posey. Think of it as The One Person You Meet in Limbo. Out ...