Collection of previously published and new material from award-winning writer Bob Kunzinger. Work has appeared or has been noted in various publications including Southern Humanities Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Best American Essays, and many more. This work includes such popular essays as Sliced Bread, Baby on a Windshield, and others, including the first publication of the extended essay, Curious Men, about the author's search for himself and a friend lost in the Congo.
Bob Kunzinger is the author of five books, including Blessed Twilight: The Story of Vincent van Gogh; Out of Nowhere: Scenes from St Petersburg; Prof; Penance; and Meanwhile in Leningrad. His essays have appeared in many regional and national publications, including The Chronicle of Higher Education. His essay "Sliced Bread" is listed as one of the most notable essays of 2007 in Best American Essays 2008
Bob is a professor of arts and humanities at Saint Leo University and Tidewater Community College in Virginia.
These essays present to us, in delightfully written prose, a mind at work thinking about the world around him. In meditations that play with language, memory, literature, and current events, Kunziger surprises and delights. The long memoir at the end (the details of which I won't reveal), is a powerful rendering of friendship and discovery, well worth the read.