Something Like the Truth: Selected Essays

by Tom Soter

It’s here! The “greatest hits” collection you’ve been looking for! “Perfect for passing time on an uptown subway ride!” KIRKUS REVIEWS Enjoy the best essays from TOM SOTER's six critically acclaimed volumes of autobiography, including two new stories! Among the "Overheard on a Bus" (a strange encounter on a Manhattan bus); "Memories of Michele" (a bittersweet tale of a lost love); "You Don't Know Jack" (the bizarre story of a man who apparently never existed); "Do Not Go Gently" (a black comedy about a dead man's brain); "Woman in Heels" (a horror story about health); "Saving the Starfish" (a tale about an obsessive relationship); and "This Story of Yours" (a new piece about love and marriage). See why KIRKUS REVIEWS calls Soter's work "witty and breezy...perfect for passing time on an uptown subway ride" (and you can also be daring and read it on a downtown subway ride…) This is the standard size edition.

288 pages, Paperback

Published September 21, 2017

About the author

Born and raised with his two brothers in New York City, Tom Soter is a writer, editor, and improv teacher. He has written for Entertainment Weekly, Diversion, Backstage, The New York Observer, Empire, and countless other magazines and newspapers. He was the managing editor of Firehouse magazine from 1978 to 1981, and since 1982, he has been an editor at Habitat magazine, the definitive publication for boards of cooperatives and condominiums in New York City. He has produced 12 books, Bond and Beyond: 007 and Other Special Agents; Investigating Couples: A Critical Analysis of The Thin Man, The Avengers, and The X-Files; Some Thoughts and Some Photos, a memoir; Nick and Tom at the Beach, a children’s story; Overheard on a Bus, Disappearing Act, and Bedbugs, Biondi, and Me, Driving Me Crazy, fourcollections of essays; A Doctor and a Plumber in a Rowboat, a book on improvisation, co-authored with Carol Schindler; The Whole Catastrophe, his father’s memoirs (edited and with additional material written by Tom), The Nick and Tom Pajama Story (editor), Memoirs of a Wandering Warthog (editor), and Look at Them Now, a collection of short stories written by Alan Saly, Tom Sinclair, Christian Doherty, and Soter. His next book will be a collaboration with Sinclair, Saly, and Doherty on a novel called What Evil Lurks in Haley? In 2005, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. He currently produces and performs in the Sunday Night Improv comedy jam, which he has run since 1993, and hehas been teaching improv since 1987. He lives with his partner, Christine, in New York City.