In the thirteen personal essays in Grammar Lessons, Michele Morano connects the rules of grammar to the stories we tell to help us understand our worlds. Living and traveling in Spain during a year of
In essays with settings that range from the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, to the mountain town of Leadville, Colorado, to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, Trudy Dittmar weaves personal experience wi
When Carl Klaus's wife of thirty-five years died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage, right before Thanksgiving in 2002, he took the only road toward recovery that made sense to him: he started writi
The carefully crafted, meditative essays in On the Shoreline of Knowledge sometimes start from unlikely objects or thoughts, a pencil or some fragments of commonplace conversation, but they soon lead
In the streets of Addis Ababa in 1977, shop-front posters illustrate Uncle Sam being strangled by an Ethiopian revolutionary, parliamentary leaders are executed, student protesters are gunned down, an
The author's father Bill developed spasmodic torticollis, a condition of persistent involuntary contraction of the neck muscles, while in the Navy in WWII. One day after the author's birth, her father
The author describes her experiences growing up with an African American father and an Italian American mother, examines her mixed-race identity, and offers essays focusing on art, music, and identity
Herman, a novelist, memoirist, and teacher, offers two personal essays on dreaming and seeing things that aren't there, weaving her own life and family experiences with theories from psychoanalysis, n
Tom Lutz is on a mission to visit every country on earth. And the Monkey Learned Nothing?contains reports from fifty of them, most describing personal encounters in rarely visited spots, anecdotes fro
"Collections are more about who one is than about what is collected. In Little Big World, Jeffrey Hammond's resonant 1950As inner child speaks through the reflective sixty-something man about the cult
Now back in print, Joseph Wood Krutch's Burroughs Award-winning The Desert Year is as beautiful as it is philosophically profound. Although Krutch came to the desert relatively late in his life, his c
?Peter Selgin was cursed/blessed with an unusual childhood. The son of Italian immigrants—his father an electronics inventor and a mother so good looking UPS drivers swerved off their routes to see he
?Throughout his life, maps have been a source of imagination and wonder for Christopher Norment. Mesmerized by them since the age of eight or nine, he found himself courted and seduced by maps, which
