The author of The Obituary Writer chronicles the nervous breakdown of Lydia Modine, a sixty-one-year-old woman whose husband and family have abandoned her while she is in the midst of writing a difficult book about Detroit's automobile industry. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Product Description: Sherman Alexie, David Sedaris, and fifteen other writers on their recent experiences in American classroomsTales Out of School is a luminous collection of diverse and passionate life stories—on-the-ground testimonies of sitting in an American classroom today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In 1989, twenty-two-year-old Gordie Hatch, a naive, would-be journalist, takes a job as an obituary writer for the St. Louis Independent in the hopes that this will be a stepping stone to a career as a reporter, but an encounter with young widow Alice Whiting leads him on an obsessive quest in search of the truth behind the Whiting family. Original.

Eighteen essays examine the conflict between justice and the law, the impact of imprisonment, and the search for fairness

A collection of essays by noted writers about the important question of progress at the close of the twentieth century (view table of contents)