Description:
A fresh collection of humorous and often satirical essays by Sam Pickering, who keeps telling us it's his last book!
Brief description: Sam Pickering isn't bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and naïve. His world, and pages, however, are green with life. In this collection of essays, he celebrates friendships and the memories of friendships. He rummages through closets of books, some so worm-eaten they are wondrously nourishing. He cures aches and pains by turning them into words. He meanders days and places and looking closely at life finds it intriguing. Under his pen, the imagination soars and the familiar becomes richly appealing, at once both familiar and unfamiliar. He is not a self-help writer, but his essays lighten one's steps and make a person, even a vegan, want to eat a Montreal Sausage and cheer villains, and heroes, at a country wrestling match. Although Sam Pickering lives in Connecticut, he has long been a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Review Quotes: I've been reading Sam Pickering's essays for nearly fifty years, and they have always been for me a touchstone, a place to go home. Now, in his 34th book, he seems even more comfortable in the genre-the personal essay-that he has so beautifully embraced and made utterly his own. These essays are uplifting, poetical, sometimes melancholy, always hugely entertaining. Pickering is an American original, and he's writing here at the top of his form.
-Jay Parini, author of Borges and Me