All My Days Are Saturdays - Pickering, Sam
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A New York Times article once stated that "the art of the essay as delivered by [Sam] Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble.” As Pickering himself puts it, "Well, I have gotten considerably older, and humor has come to mean more and more to me. And if I'm on the front porch, I am in a rocking chair.” All My Days Are Saturdays offers fifteen new pieces in which he ponders a world that has changed and, in new ways, still delights him.

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A New York Times article once stated that "the art of the essay as delivered by [Sam] Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble.” As Pickering himself puts it, "Well, I have gotten considerably older, and humor has come to mean more and more to me. And if I'm on the front porch, I am in a rocking chair.” All My Days Are Saturdays offers fifteen new pieces in which he ponders a world that has changed and, in new ways, still delights him.
Autorenporträt
Sam Pickering is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut. His unconventional teaching style was one of the inspirations for the character of Mr. Keating, played by Robin Williams in the film Dead Poets Society. Academically, Pickering specializes in the familiar essay, children's literature, nature writers, and 18th- and 19th-century English literature. He has published many collections of nonfiction personal essays as well as over 200 articles. Pickering and his wife, Vicki, live in a small house in Connecticut with three little rescue dogs and two imaginary grandchildren. "Well-behaved children," he writes, "mannered and old-fashioned, kids who genuflect to their elders and use bad language only at the dinner table at home."