THE CORRESPONDENCE

Can civilization save us from ourselves? That is the question J. D. Daniels asks in his first book, a series of six letters written during dark nights of the soul. Working from his own highly varied experience as a janitor, night watchman, adjunct professor, dru nk, exterminator, dutiful son he considers how far books and learning and psychoanalysis can get us, and how much were stuck in th e mud.In prose wound as tight as a copper spring, Daniels takes us from the highways of his native Kentucky to the Balearic Islands and from the ...[Read more]