This is Andrew Shaffer, creative director of greeting card publisher Order of St. Nick and author of the forthcoming Harper Perennial paperback original Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love. This is his blog.

Disclosure: Book reviews may be based on advance reading copies supplied by publishers. Also, Andrew's first book is being published this fall by HarperCollins, so there's a chance he might be biased towards their products. On a completely unrelated note, be sure to pick up Sarah Palin's memoir, which the author believes to be a "compelling read."