The Brow Beat

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In The Happiest Man in the World, Alec Wilkinson profiles Poppa Neutrino, a free-spirited 70-something who crosses the Atlantic on a raft built from trash. Is Neutrino nuts? Maybe, but he'll make you long to quit your desk job.

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Where's the concession stand? It's not Dickens, but it's an apt opening line for I Live for This!, the Tommy Lasorda bio cowritten with Bill Plaschke. Some stories are familiar—he knew Sinatra?—but so is a plate of con vongole, and that's O.K.