Phil Crossman

"'Several years ago it was revealed to me that creative nonfiction was a legitimate literary genre,' writes Phil Crossman. 'It was the most liberating experience of my life. All these years I thought I'd been simply lying.' Crossman is a humorist in the Mark Twain mold: wry, satiric, and keenly aware of the shortcomings of human beings, but with a leavening of self-deprecation and underlying sympathy. Though rooted in a regional consciousness (coastal...