The Portable Roger Burke

There is a quality about Roger Burke the man that makes him the writer that he is and it is an element all too often overlooked by critics who evaluate writers or probe what makes a writer stand out from his peers. The late, great editor Max Perkins understood the mysterious alchemy when he wrote, "The only important things for a writer are loyalty, fortitude, and honor and for a writer to be born knowing that goes at least part of the way to being a great writer." What can be said of Roger...