MixedThe Wall Street JournalIt’s an exercise, alas, that often contrives to find lessons where none exist, and seldom amounts to more than trite advice-manual truisms ... Still, his optimism that workers will generate “magic” one No-Meeting Monday at a time is energizing—even vital.
Andrea Lankford
PositiveThe Wall Street JournalTrail of the Lost stumbles along its journey: Ms. Lankford has a propensity to overuse the adjective “cute,” and one of the first sources she cites is an undergraduate thesis. But one accepts the author’s idiosyncrasies because it’s hard to imagine who else could have produced a work like this. Her book is a sprawling portrait of an area whose fantastical features practically necessitate the use of metaphor.
