Sam Pickering has spent decades writing about things that go bump in the night and in the day: fo...

He roams New England, Arkansas, the Caribbean, Nova Scotia and the familiar and odd plots of mind...

Terrible Sanity is wondrous sanity. Pickering's essays are acetaminophen for hippish days. 'Life ...

Being Home is a collection of personal essays about the spirit of place, the juncture of memory a...

Being Home is a collection of personal essays about the spirit of place, the juncture of memory a...

The essays in Sam Pickering’s new collection sing with thoughtful observations on life, death, lo...

An English teacher at a boys' school in Tennessee, Pickering was the inspiration for the film 'De...

‘Journeys’ is a collection of essays in which Sam Pickering mulls travelling. He travels to Nova ...

More than two dozen essays visit the author's great themes--family, nature, seizing the day, and ...

Reading Pickering is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend, said 'Smithsonian maga...

Presents a collection of familiar essays. The author comes from the generation in which girls rea...

One Grand, Sweet Song is a collection of familiar essays in which Sam Pickering explores librarie...

'No one creates so many memorable, saucy aphorisms-piquant, bitter-sweet, arousing.' -Pat C. Hoy ...

A New York Times article once stated that 'the art of the essay as delivered by [Sam] Pickering i...

While actor Robin Williams may have captured his madcap classroom antics in Dead Poets' Society h...

'Last year Sam Pickering announced that he'd written his final word. 'I intend to sit in a chair ...

A fresh collection of humorous and often satirical essays by Sam Pickering, who keeps telling us ...