For “Twelve Great Authors Pick Their Essential American Book,” TIME magazine asked me to name one book by an American author everyone should read. I was honored to be asked, but it was hard to settle on only one!
I chose this.
“Just follow.” He took off, pushing the larger ferns from his face. There were two paths to choose from, both…
“In journalism, immediacy is a valuable commodity. The journalist doesn’t want facts to become clouded by reflection. But literary…
“From the day Jane walked out our front door — taking everything of value she could stuff in her car,…
