The Crow’s Dinner, due out in August from Subterranean Press in the U.S.,

The Crow’s Dinner, due out in August from Subterranean Press in the U.S., is master novelist Jonathan Carroll’s debut essay collection, and that is very good news. Gathering together hundreds of entries that initially appeared on the website Medium, The Crow’s Dinner is at once a wide-ranging spiritual autobiography and an annotated guide to what Carroll calls “The Map of Me.”

Beginning with an appreciation of “The Invisibles,” those insignificant moments we overlook at our peril,The Crow’s Di...