A score of short fiction dedicated to man's best friend.  This addition to the Everyman's Library is a smaller "pocket classic" edition.  The integrated ribbon bookmark adds a thoughtful touch for gift-giving or your own reading pleasure.

The richly drawn and unforgettable canines gathered here include Rudyard Kipling's heroically faithful "Garm," Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a "Yellow Dog," and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull Ava, who lives in an apartment building for dogs in Jonathan Lethem's "Ava's Apartment."

Here are stories that touchingly illuminate the dog's role in the emotional lives of humans, such as Tobias Wolff's "Her Dog," in which a widower shares his grief for his wife with her grieving pet. Here, too, are humorous glimpses of the canine point of view, from O. Henry's tale of a dissatisfied lapdog's escape to P. G. Wodehouse's cheerfully naïve watchdog who simply wants everybody to get along.

These writers and others - Ray Bradbury, Doris Lessing, Thomas McGuane, Rick Bass, James Salter, and Penelope Lively among them-offer imaginative, lyrical, and empathetic portraits of humanity's most devoted companion.

 

 

Ten years ago, former New York Times food columnist Molly O'Neill embarked on a transcontinental road trip to investigate reports that Americans had stopped cooking at home. As she traveled, it was immediately apparent that dire predictions about the end of American cuisine were vastly overstated; home cooks were channeling their family histories as well as their tastes and personal ambitions into delicious meals. One decade and over 300,000 miles later, One Big Table is a celebration of these cooks.

The 600 recipes in One Big Table are a definitive portrait of what we eat and why; a portrait illustrated with historic photographs, folk art, vintage advertisements, and family snapshots.  Many recipes offer a bridge between first-generation immigrants and their progeny, while others are contemporary variations that embody each generation's restless obsession with distinguishing itself from its predecessors.

As O'Neill writes, "Most Americans cook from the heart as well as from a distinctly American yearning, something I could feel but couldn't describe until thousands of miles of highway helped me identify it in myself: hometown appetite. This book is a journey through hundreds of 'hometowns' that fuel the American appetite, recipe by recipe, bite by bite."

When he got up that morning

    everything

         WAS DIFFERENT:

He enjoyed

    the bright spring day

    but he did not realize it exactly,

he just enjoyed it.

 

So begins Edward Field's A Journey, a poem which on the surface looks at a commuter's train trip into the city.  Upon a closer reading, we see it is more introspective, describing a more personal, spiritual journey of both the poet and the reader.

Edward Field has published works of poetry, fiction, and non-ficiton.  His poetry and essays have appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker magazine, the New York Times Book Review, and Kenyon Review.