Terrible Sanity is wondrous sanity. Pickering's essays are acetaminophen for hippish days. 'Life ...

He roams New England, Arkansas, the Caribbean, Nova Scotia and the familiar and odd plots of mind...

Being Home is a collection of personal essays about the spirit of place, the juncture of memory a...

Being Home is a collection of personal essays about the spirit of place, the juncture of memory a...

The essays in Sam Pickering's new collection sing with thoughtful observations on life, death, lo...

An English teacher at a boys' school in Tennessee, Pickering was the inspiration for the film 'De...

'Journeys' is a collection of essays in which Sam Pickering mulls traveling. He travels to Nova S...

More than two dozen essays visit the author's great themes--family, nature, seizing the day, and ...

Reading Pickering is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend, said 'Smithsonian maga...

Presents a collection of familiar essays. The author comes from the generation in which girls rea...

Essays in which happiness becomes a magic carpet, lifting readers above momentary fret and making...

Presents a collection of familiar essays in which Sam Pickering explores libraries and woods and ...