ON LEAVE: A Book of Anecdotes
Keith Tuma Salt Publishing ($14.95) by Stephen Burt What a bad title for such a good—and, paradoxically, ambitious—book: though it presents itself as a low-pressure journal, the inconsequential deeds and recollections of a senior professor in a sabbatical year, On Leave unfolds to reveal a meditation on the anecdote as a form; an elegant sketch of grief, […]