All my days are Saturdays / Sam Pickering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pickering, Sam, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pickering, Sam, 1941-.

Pickering, Sam.

Physical Description:

189 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2014]

Summary:

A New York Times article once stated that "the art of the essay as delivered by [Sam] Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble." As pickering himself puts it, "Well, I have gotten considerably older, and humor has come to mean more and more to me. And if I'm on the front porch, I am in a rocking chair." All My Days Are Saturdays offers fifteen new pieces in which he ponders a world that has changed and, in new ways, still delights him. This collection features Pickering writing about teaching and his recent retirement, visits to various locales, and, as he tell us, "the many people I meet...who tell me their stories, small tales that make one laugh and sigh." Distinctive and unmistakable, Pickering's style deftly mixes the colloquial language of everyday life with references to a lifetime of extensive reading. The seamless blend of these two worlds in his writing is indicative of how they fuse together in his daily life. As Pickering puts it, "All my life I have roamed libraries, almost as much as I have roamed the natural world. I try to get at many truths, but when I tell the truth, I 'tell it slan.' I do so to describe life as it is and indeed celebrate that 'as it is.'" Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Wild 17

2 A Little Forgetful 25

3 Proof 35

4 Chat 45

5 Butterfly Dreams 61

6 All My Days Are Saturdays 67

7 Unnecessaries 77

8 False Stop 87

9 Not My Will 99

10 Undead 111

11 September 30 133

12 The Idles of May 141

13 Variations on a Theme during Fall 153.

ISBN:

0826220282

9780826220288

OCLC:

867020657