Falling in Space, an excerpt from my new book FISH OUT OF WATER

This excerpt from my new book FISH OUT OF WATER: A Search for the Meaning of Life is from the chapter “Onion Skin and Nothingness.” Here is an image so you too can see where it happened!

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Falling in Space

One weekend John Tomanio—still at Wesleyan, having taken a year off—told me that Annie Dillard had read my “Impala George” story and loved it. I didn’t know who she was but soon gathered she was a famous writer, and that I should be very flattered. I eventually even got to speak with her on...