Schoolhouse: Lessons on Love and Landscape

Imagine Walden recast as a love story. This acclaimed memoir opens with its Brooklyn-born narrator standing on his head outside a remote old one-room schoolhouse in the heart of the Midwest. Why such retreat—to attend the renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop, or is he actually on the run from a long-term relationship gone sour in both NYC and Venice? Structured like a schoolbook, each chapter is named after school subjects (i.e. Geography, Civics, Anatomy, What I Did On My Summer Vacation), collectively forming an overall lesson plan in how one might hope to find where identity, place, and heart all intersect. SCHOOLHOUSE—an intimate study in both nature and human nature— offering honest lessons on what we all might need to learn and unlearn about our pasts, our futures. Our exiles. Our connections. Read more