Happy Vagrancy: Essays from an Easy Chair

“Happy Vagrancy is in many ways about essays themselves—essays as means of thinking, means of gathering, and offering nuggets of thought. These essays break into song and story, but they are not bound by tune or plot. There is something about them—a radiance—beyond structure, arc, or conclusion.”—Philip Brady, author of By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard

The essays in Sam Pickering’s new collection sing with thoughtful observations on life, death, love, and literature. Whether attendi...