New York: Catapult, (2016). SIGNED first edition - A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Criticism. A collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds - in a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, the Lizzie Borden story in Fall River or a crowded bus in Haiti. Among the many writers he discusses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Yasunari Kawabata, Saul Bellow, Mavis Gallant, John Edgar Wideman, William Trevor, and more. SIGNED on the title page. Author and title index. 316 pp. ISBN: 978-1936787258.