Revelation at the food bank Essays
Book - 2023
"These powerful essays share critical moments of a writer's life: scenes from sixty years of passionate married love; suicides faced and suicide contemplated; trauma at the DMV; a night lost searching for a harpsichord in the mountains of Florence, Italy; the tale of a beloved cousin whose plane is shot down by Japanese Zeros; and a precious friendship between two women writers derailed by the poisons of religion and politics. In the titular essay (included in Best American Essays 2023) a food bank, assuaging the pandemic's terrors with gifts of food and prayers, becomes a portal for intimate confidences entrusted to us by a voice of unspoiled authenticity and perennial vigor."--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Essays
- Published
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Montclair, New Jersey :
Sagging Meniscus Press
[2023]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9781952386701
- Revelation at the food bank
- True believer: my friendship with Cynthia Ozick
- Letters home from college: the making of a writer
- At the DMV
- A life in letters
- The found desk
- My suicides
- Why I must give up writing
- The harpsichord on the mountain
- The lost airman: a memoir of World War Two
- On the edge of action.