Jesse Donaldson is a graduate of The Michener Center for Writers. He lives in Texas.
Fall 2013
Generation B-ovine: Sam Byers’ Idiopathy
In the midst of the lingering global economic crisis, it has become common to find articles lamenting the future of the “Peter Pan generation”—those X and Y millenials who have put off marriage, jobs that include 401Ks, home-ownership, and child-rearing.
Winter 2012
Ducks on the Pond: Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding
In the late 1990s, I moonlighted as a slap-hitting second baseman for the Kenyon College Lords, one of the most historically inept sports teams in NCAA history. I came into Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding, a first novel about baseball at a liberal arts college, with suspicion.
Fall 2011
On Mark Richard’s House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer’s Journey Home
Nan A. Talese: New York, NY, 2011. 224 pages. $23.95. There is no negotiation in Mark Richard’s new memoir. Written in the second person singular, House of Prayer No. 2 […]