Knowledgeable, earnest, and always engaging, Alan Watts was one of the most popular and effective purveyors of that specifically American decoction of Eastern religious philosophies which permeated the counter-cultural activities of the... Read More

River of the Angry Moon illustrates both what perceptions and perspectives of the scientist and the sportsman—rigorous reasoning and factual precision on one side and passionate affection coupled with an acute sense of present and... Read More

Central character Nick Gallagher is an aspiring boxer who tends bar at the Blue Paradise, located in the unfashionable district of Manhattan known as Hell’s Kitchen. Author Matt Bloom, a former boxer and bartender himself, not... Read More

“Get away from the absolute,” Ignatow warned himself in his notebooks. “Get back into tying your shoelaces or holding a newspaper or changing a diaper or combing your hair.” And so he did, assiduously avoiding or aborting any... Read More