Nola was so exciting and confirming for me as a nonfiction writer that I wanted to set this review in the context of some of the current issues evolving around creative nonfiction. It is an important text because it unites story and... Read More

Contrary to the claims made by its subtitle and foreword, Karmel’s A Corner in the Marais is more an informal history of a Paris neighborhood than it is a memoir, per se. With the exception of the first chapter, which treats the... Read More

With sarcastic verve, Jonathan Baird takes the reader inside the life of a disillusioned college-grad trapped inside corporate America. Baird’s alter ego, Mark, is a customer service rep, and his microscopic observations and antics... Read More

From the acclaimed author of the novels Dream Boy and Winter Birds comes this quartet of plays, all already staged and all well received. Of the four pieces “The Borderland” is the most conventional, as married yuppies and a trailer... Read More

This book is 224 pages long with 163 illustrations. It has huge headings on sections that average two pages in length. And it has a publisher with the audacity to title the book Eastern Wisdom. Can the whole of Eastern thought fit... Read More

“Dad, do I have good karma?” Such a vexing but valid question certainly deserves a considered answer, but parents would be hard pressed to find one in the standard set of encyclopedias. While World Book and Britannica do a solid job... Read More

Turning the Feather Around: My Life in Art is a surprising read, not only for the facts that lie in George Morrison’s life story, but also how Margot Fortuna to Galt skillfully crafted the 30 or so interviews with Morrison and his... Read More

Why do men persist in destroying their habitat? In Nature and Madness, Paul Shepard offers a trenchant and well-argued philosophical response that even he acknowledges doesn’t fully explain the problem. It’s not just greed that leads... Read More