Krissy Kneen

I suppose extreme circumstances bring out extreme reactions in people, don't they?

I'm going to mention two very briefly.

Go for it.

John Birmingham's tiny little 80-page essay on father, which is about the death of his father and his relationship with his father and the grief he felt when his father died and how that...

deepened into depression.

It's a wonderful condensed look at emotion and I think something that a lot of men don't face in themselves.

Beautifully done.

But I also want to point forward to a book that's coming out in October, The Innocent Reader by Deborah Adelaide, which is a collection of her essays about being a reader, being a writer.

being a teacher of writing and also being a reviewer and there's one that you will enjoy where she actually talks about writing a negative review of a novel and feeling very uncomfortable about it and then having it messed up by the sub-editors and then having to confront the author and the reaction of the author is very interesting but it's a beautiful portrait of the evolution of a reader and

The Innocent Reader.

She's not so innocent anymore, Deborah Adelaide.

I recommend that when it comes out.

Great title.

Very stressful, that essay, but I think I'm just going to have to read it.

You're actually saying, Susan, that

I thought of Wolf Island as something of a coastal western because there's people with guns, there's goodies and baddies, and it's all happening in this marshy land attacked by the sea.