The entries in this anthology make up...

The entries in this anthology make up a pleasant miscellany of stories, sketches and poems, linked by his solitary existence in New York City. Philip Lopate’s subjects range from memories of his parents’ unhappy marriage to the trials of housebreaking a kitten in a Manhattan apartment to a wistful portrait of a Korean woman caught between two cultures. The result is an engaging book that offers the comfortable pleasures of an evening with an old friend.