August 25, 2013
Pocketbooks, Part 3 (B)
Early in Jack Henry Abbott’s In the Belly of the Beast, Abbott, who at the time of his book’s publication had spent almost his entire life, from nine-years-old to thirty-seven, […]
August 16, 2013
Pocketbooks, Part 3 (A)
I have a friend who is a poet immersed in the question of whether one person can truly know another. At work a couple weeks back, mulling the question over, […]
July 22, 2013
Pocketbooks, Part 1
I used to carry everything in a black bike messenger bag but switched a few years ago to a backpack. The pack is canvas, gray, accented in blue and black. […]