Dave Itzkoff

Book Preview   The creative adult is the child who survived. —provenance unknown his mother called him “WILD THING!” and Max said “I’LL EAT YOU UP!” so he was sent to bed without eating anything. That very night in Max’s room a forest grew and grew— and grew until his ceiling hung with vines and … Read more

Book Preview He was such an elusive and transient figure that for the first eight years of my life I seem to have believed my father was the product of my imagination. The adult world that I traveled through was populated almost exclusively by women: there were the teachers who trained me on the multiplication … Read more