Paul Allen

10 Great Biographies and Memoirs Spotlighting Right Hand Men

Everyone loves a good memoir — we don’t know what it is, but there’s just something about a true, personal story that gets us every time, especially when it comes from someone we’ve already been idolizing from afar. Enter Biographile, one of our recently-discovered favorite websites, dedicated to biographies and memoirs and the readers who love them. To commemorate the release of Grace Coddington’s new memoir, Grace, which hits shelves next week, the kind folks at Biographile have curated a list of some of their favorite biographies and memoirs by and about the right hand men (and women) who have found their own spotlight. Click through to see which they chose, and if your favorite sidekick memoir has gotten the brush, add on to their list in the comments! … Read More

Daily Dose Pick: The GOOD 100

The GOOD 100 is a compendium of people, ideas, and programs changing our planet for the better.

Put together by GOOD magazine, the online version of the list has added five innovative subjects each day in October, hitting the full 100 today. With picks ranging from a small Australian town’s bottled-water boycott to a teacher-salary initiative started by the leaders of 826, the savvy editors have compiled dozens of sources of inspiration, culled from an array of entries and their own archive. … Read More