Full name: Loitering: New and Collected Essays

Author: Charles D'Ambrosio Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Essays, Non Fiction, Short Stories, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781935639879 1935639870

Charles D'Ambrosio's essay collection Orphans spawned something of a cult following. In the decade since the tiny limited-edition volume sold out its print run, its devotees have pressed it upon their friends, students, and colleagues, only to find themselves begging for their copy's safe return. For anyone familiar with D'Ambrosio's writing, this enthusiasm should come as no surprise. His work is exacting and emotionally generous, often as funny as it is devastating. Loitering gathers those eleven original essays with new and previously uncollected work so that a broader audience might discover one of our great living essayists. No matter his subject -- Native American whaling, a Pentecostal "hell house," Mary Kay Letourneau, the work of J. D. Salinger, or, most often, his own family -- D'Ambrosio approaches each piece with a singular voice and point of view; each essay, while unique and surprising, is unmistakably his own. Similar books: In Favor of the Sensitive Man by Anais Nin On Looking by Lia Purpura The Way the World Works by Nicholson Baker At the Same Time by Susan Sontag When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson The Rub of Time by Martin Amis Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell Vintage Didion by Joan Didion The Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker Tremendous Trifles by G. K. Chesterton Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen In Praise of Messy Lives by Katie Roiphe The Writer and the World by V. S. Naipaul Facing Unpleasant Facts by George Orwell The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace I Wrote This Book Because I Love You by Tim Kreider Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley Alibis by Andre Aciman