This one goes out to my baseball-playing nephews. From the book “Roughneck Grace,” available here. NOTE: Since I began posting the daily “From the Little Writing Room Above the Garage”…View post

Once I grabbed an electric pig fencer with my bare hands. Then I decided to write a goofy book about French philosophy. Not everybody dug it. But…* From the book…View post

My longtime friend Al brought his microphone up to my room over the garage. Al and I first met in 1992 when I went on his radio show to hawk…View post

I’m tickled with how this discussion begins; the reader admitting she was assigned my book in grad school and “I didn’t enjoy it.” Then another story unfolds… I’ve been doing…View post

That’s the hat on the cover of Montaigne in Barn Boots. Me* and my mustache were younger when this picture was taken. *Spare me yer notes it’s how I talk when…View post