“There are only two passions in art; there are love and hate—with endless modifications.”—Theodore Roethke At his death, Theodore Roethke left behind 277 spiral notebooks full of poetry fragments, aphorisms, jokes, memos, jour...
Mark Twain had a way of describing life that let you taste it and laugh at it simultaneously. It isn't a gift that shows up very often among writers, but it's here again in David Wagoner's tale. He writes with wit and sparkle, Courier-Post Seventeen-...
The first book by acclaimed novelist and poet David Wagoner, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a breathtaking novel filled with terror and pathos, finally back in print after 70 years... Middle-aged Charlie Bell, a crippled watchman at a railroad cr...
One of the wildest, funniest, and most memorable trips ever dreamed up by a novelist. Wagoner is a master story-teller. Chicago Tribune It's 1859, and twenty-year-old Ike Bender, eager to escape the yoke of his brutal father, runs away from his famil...