The traveling feast: on the road and at the table with my heroes

Peter Matthiessen, RIP

Amy Hempel, good witch of Manhattan

Gordon Lish, captain fiction

Denis Johnson, a long time clean

Doug Peacock, Hayduke still lives

David Sedaris, trash collector extraordinaire

John Berger, old man of the mountains

Gary Snyder and the road to Kitkitdizze

Russell Chatham, the painter, recently hospitalized, emerges from seven-figure debt and alcoholism, ready to paint

Barry Lopez, carnivore for a night

Tom McFuane, AKA captain berserko, burning down the house

Lorrie Moore, fairy godmother : the road to the corn palace; or, The trail of ears

The road home

Joyce Carol Oates, Badass

Terry Tempest Williams, red-rock solid

Mississippi ghosts.