Manure Dreams and Other Essays

Manure Dreams and Other Stories is a collection of travel, memoir, descriptive, humour, and nature essays, all sewn together with the themes of writing, teaching, and literature. Most of the essays involve situations leading to humorous or epiphanic outcomes. As Joan Didion famously asserted, she didn't know how she felt about something until she wrote about it; with the process of writing comes clarity and, perhaps, instruction. By describing what happened, Richard Holinger is led to under...