The Reading Warehouse

Edited and introduced by the award-winning author of Many Sleepless Nights and An Unspoken Art, A View from the Divide, includes a diverse range of voices, from poets to immunologists and physicists, from established writers to up-and-coming new talent, including the winner of the Bayer Creative Nonfiction Science Writing Award for the best original essay about science. Alison Hawthorne Deming, whose 1994 collection. Science and Other Poems, won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets.

This powerful collection of nearly twenty essays captures an eclectic range of ideas illustrating the potential of the creative nonfiction genre in which literary style and intellectual substance can touch, intrigue, and enlighten both a general and specialized readership. One essay",Solo". was written a few months before the author's tragic death in a plane crash. Another writer, threatened by blindness, discovers the power to pursue normal life through the Beethoven Fantasia. There is a discourse on the value of meteorites, a personal account of living with migraine headaches, an inside look at the fury of a hurricane, a character study of Primo Levi, an essay by a successful attorney living with schizophrenia, and a construction worker offers a meditation on the psychological intersection between fear and work.