Handling the Truth (on The Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life by Nicholas Delbanco; A Childhood in the Milky Way: Becoming a Poet in Ohio by David Brendan Hopes; The Night Gardener: A Search for Home by Marjorie Sandor; A Little Fling and Other Essays by Sam Pickering; & In Montaigne’s Tower by Hilary Masters)
Lingua Sexus: Autobiography in Love (on E-mail Trouble: Love and Addiction @ The Matrix by S. Paige Baty; Unzipped: What Happens When Friends Talk about Sex—A True Story by Courtney Weaver; & Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany)
Such Is the Stuff Our Popular Culture Is Made Of (on The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney’s New Town by Andrew Ross; Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition by Richard Keller Simon; & Faded Mosaic: The Emergence of Post-cultural America by Christopher Clausen)
Where People and Wildness Collide (on The Edges of the Civilized World by Alison Hawthorne Deming & Death of a Hornet and Other Cape Cod Essays by Robert Finch)
