The author, most recently, of the updated “Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story,” avoids “fiction about dysfunctional urban middle-class people written in the present tense.”
In her latest work, Patricia Marx sets out to uncover why her brain, clogged with too many bits of information, does not seem to work the way it once did.
Richard Beck examines the social and political climate that set the stage for the sensational child abuse cases and lurid investigations that gripped the United States in the 1980s.
