The only certainty in life is death. Why then is the subject of mortality taboo in our society? There are books about how to respond to the deaths of others and what may happen to our souls after we perish, but very few address the hardest fact of death— that each of us is mortal, and we each must eventually confront our own ending. Following the deaths of his parents, Keith McWalter was forced to face his own mortality—a reality that he, like most of us, had managed to ignore. He launched the blog Mortal Coil, where he writes nonfiction and opinion pieces on a variety of subjects including politics, personal relationships, and modern medicine. Befriending Ending and Other Essays contains many of the best essays from Mortal Coil; a thought-provoking compilation that combines strong emotions and lighthearted humor in a candid nonfiction style. The lead essay, “Befriending Ending,” is the unforgettable story of the death of a parent, and a provocative exploration of our collective denial of death. The collection ranges far beyond the opening subject, and readers will find pieces both serious and comic on a wide range of topics, from the national debt to how you too can travel like a slob.
For Conrad Burrell—husband, father, and successful attorney in the autumn of his life—the world has come apart. Having long ago lost his first wife, the mother of his grown daughter and a widow herself, to youth and pride, he’s now lost his second to a violent accident,. “You think you’re finished, that you have no more stories in you,” his ex-wife warns, and he fears she’s right. Within hailing distance of the end of his days, after a lifetime of meeting the expectations of others, none are left but Conrad’s own, and he must discover whether love survives death as well as divorce—whether family memory can redeem individual mortality. What do we do, then, we widows and widowers for whom there’s nothing left but the world’s permission to stop what we’ve done all our lives? In the cities of his youth, in the deserts of New Mexico, but most of all in a small Pennsylvania town, Conrad finds he has one more lesson in love to learn from the women of his past, and the one woman he's certain he can't live without. When We Were All Still Alive is a novel of grief and healing, a portrait of a marriage, and a love song to ordinary lives.
When Keith McWalter's daughter turned sixteen, he decided, after years of separation as her "non-custodial" father, that it was time she knew a little something about him. The Plastic Bag Will Not Inflate: Letters from a Bicoastal Father is a collection of essay-letters and fiction excerpts written over the years of a daughter's college career and maturation into womanhood, and a father's evolution from occasional bicoastal visitor to real-life dad. At once a series of wry and often humorous cross-generational messages on education, travel, sex, religion, careers, and urban life as we live it today, it is also an unflinching, multi-faceted look at the facts, foibles and feelings that accompanied one man's experience of bicoastal parenting in a world of broken families, email, and the inevitable, unavoidable redeye to New York. If the rage of fathers separated from their children is one of the defining realities of our age, this little book is a call across the gulfs that all fractured families endure, and an invitation to kinship among dispossessed parents on every coast. Keith G. McWalter is a writer, lawyer and investment banker. His personal essays have been published repeatedly in the long-running "About Men" feature in The New York Times Magazine, and his work has also been included in anthologies and published by the San Jose Mercury News. He and his daughter Jessica, to whom this first collection of his writing is dedicated, both live and work in San Francisco.
Compiled from Keith McWalter's long-running essay and opinion blog, Mortal Coil, the 38 short essays in this volume span the period from the presidential election of 2016 to the summer of 2018 --one of the most unpredictable periods in American social and political history. In such tumultuous times, we take our comforts where we can, and our provocations when we must. The thoughtful reader will find both here.
No One Else Will Tell You" presents the lessons and longings of a long-distance father striving to sustain a relationship with his young adult daughter through a series of letter/essays on the most important and personal subjects in life: religion, sex, aging, education, work and play, and what it means to remain a family in the wake of divorce. Keith McWalter is a lawyer and writer whose essays and opinion pieces have appeared in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
For Conrad Burrell—husband, father, and successful attorney in the autumn of his life—the world has come apart. Having long ago lost his first wife, the mother of his grown daughter and a widow herself, to youth and pride, he’s now lost his second to a violent accident,. “You think you’re finished, that you have no more stories in you,” his ex-wife warns, and he fears she’s right. Within hailing distance of the end of his days, after a lifetime of meeting the expectations of others, none are left but Conrad’s own, and he must discover whether love survives death as well as divorce—whether family memory can redeem individual mortality. What do we do, then, we widows and widowers for whom there’s nothing left but the world’s permission to stop what we’ve done all our lives? In the cities of his youth, in the deserts of New Mexico, but most of all in a small Pennsylvania town, Conrad finds he has one more lesson in love to learn from the women of his past, and the one woman he's certain he can't live without. When We Were All Still Alive is a novel of grief and healing, a portrait of a marriage, and a love song to ordinary lives.
Capturing the extraordinary within the ordinary moment, seventy-five black-and-white photographs, many never before published, span the artist's career and are accompanied by his own account of his life and artistic development in Beaumont, Texas. UP.
Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features ninety black-and-white images of classic artwork and never-before-published Polaroid images, and is a remarkable glimpse of a man who, in his quest to become an artist, instead became an icon. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The boys are back! It's 1970 Detroit: Tucker Knox and Willie Hoyt are still cruising Woodward Ave. in the GTO and Duster 340 - but their evil nemesis is back! Kent Rager has a new Mustang Boss 429 and a new sidekick with a Challenger R/T. Together, they're hell-bent on winning back the crown as the fastest ride on Woodward.
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