by Natalie Goldberg
Each book Natalie Goldberg writes builds on the one before. Writing Down the Bones, her first, gave amateurs--those writing for the love of it--ample leeway to doodle, explore and dream on the page. In that book's chapter "A Sensation of Space," Goldberg cites haiku from Shiki, Issa, Buson and Basho. Those four send her on the title pilgrimage of Three Simple Lines.
While each of her books stands alone, Goldberg's fans will be astonished at how Three Simple Lines brings her body of work full circle--her Zen
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by Charlie Gilmour
In Featherhood, Charlie Gilmour's relationship with an unintentionally domesticated magpie becomes the lens through which he examines his relationships with his biological father and his stepfather--and his own impending role as a father himself.
Gilmour's biological father, Heathcote Williams, was an eccentric "squatter, writer, actor, alcoholic, poet, anarchist, magician, revolutionary, and Old Etonian." Add to that list serial abandoner of families, and one starts to get a sense of the stranger-than-fiction
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by Gary Paulsen
In a memoir that reads like the fiction that has made him famous, Gary Paulsen leads his audience through the rugged terrain of his childhood, a period that profoundly inspired his Newbery Honor-winning classic wilderness and survival stories The Winter Room, Hatchet and Dogsong. In Gone to the Woods, the beloved author candidly lays bare the details of his tumultuous youth.
Paulsen detaches from his narrative, using a third-person perspective and referring to himself always as "the boy." This approach pulls
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