Guest Book Recommendation: Chris Barton on How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying

By Chris Barton
for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations

As a reader, I’ve lately accumulated a large pile of books I’ve read only halfway. Getting all the way through a single book lately has been challenging.

But when I heard comedian and TV writer Carol Leifer ("Seinfeld," "Modern Family") on a podcast several weeks ago talking about the attitudes toward professionalism and creativity that have come in handy during her four-decades-and-counting career, those reflections sounded to me like they...