Short Stories from the Long Links is a collection of golf related tales for those that love golf but can't always play. Some stories are inspired by real life events, daily activities, and golf endeavors while other stories are extremely outlandish, funny, scary, motivational, surprising, and unusual; but all are enjoyable to any golfer.

A “smart, lucid, and entertaining” (The Boston Globe) modern classic of writing advice and a thoughtful record of the long and productive literary friendship between two renowned authors“You are in such good company—congenial, ironic, a bit old-school—that you’re happy to follow [Kidder and Todd] where they lead you.”—The Wall Street Journal“As approachable and applicable as any writing manual available.”—Associate...

An award-winning novel for anyone who’s ever stumbled and wondered how to start again.George Sistern thought he was chasing love—but one con artist’s scam shatters his trust, drains his savings, and sends him spiraling into pain, guilt, and a desire for revenge. In a desperate search for meaning, he turns to Mildred Markowitz, a brilliant psychologist and philosopher whose fearless honesty cuts through his emotional turmoil.Their conversations take him far ...

The celebrated literary memoir and chronicle of one man's search for the elusive gift of authenticity.Troubled by the lack of substance in contemporary life, Richard Todd suspects that much of what we experience is false. In this unique pursuit of the "genuine," Todd examines his search for authenticity in places and objects, in politics and ideas, and in ourselves, and recounts his efforts to understand the desire to be a real person in a real world.

Centuries have past since the great battle in Heaven. The demons cast out from the ethereal plane have started to awaken on a world not unlike our own. To protect the denizens of this existence, God has dispatched his finest angel to stop the demonic uprising. However, in the fall the seraph has lost his memory. Now it is a race against time for a young man named Cornelius to help this new champion remember his purpose before their world succumbs to darkness.

Originally published in 1984, Iris Murdoch, widely regarded as one of the major British novelists of her generation at the time, was undoubtedly one of the most popular and prolific, having published twenty-one novels since 1954 (she went on to write many more). But the course of her fiction-writing career was regarded with unease by some of her readers in that it seemed marked by an increasing conservatism of approach which could not have been foreseen in her earliest published fiction. S...

Christmas means different things to different people. So does family. To Richard Todd Canton, it means his revisiting life as a boy in a house that his father built for his family on Russell Street in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Remembering happy times as well as the sad ones is all a part of life. Christmas also brings with it fond memories of his mother, who filled their home with life, laughter, and love. All Things Family and Christmas offers both a sentimental journey and a reminde...

Richard Todd Canton describes himself as a working man. Never one to sit around for long periods of time, hes made a habit of keeping busyand paying attention. He entered the working world at twelve, when he stepped through the back door of a restaurant and asked for a job.Since then, hes learned from some masters and has applied that knowledge to every aspect of his life. Along the way, hes also met some interesting charactersand youll meet many of them in this collection of anecd...

Richard Todd Canton knows all too well that when tragedy strikes, you can either triumph or fail.When he was accused of a sexual offense while working as a teachers assistant, he looked right into the lens of a television camera and said hed stood up for every kid in town, and he hoped that someone would stand up for him. Almost everyone did exactly what he asked.A tireless worker, hes also been a waiter, a store clerk, a television host, an author, and a newspaper column w...

Cats & Dogs are People Too!Since we have no kids of our own, people often assume that our pets have become our children. Well, I think it runs a little deeper than that. It has to do with how much love is exchanged between man and beast. That love can run pretty deep where certain individuals are concerned. I may very well be one of those. Let me introduce you to our family and you can decide for yourself.

It was upon the rude awakening of my fathers death that I first took notice of my mother. There she stood at 43 years of age, overweight and slovenly. Our father had always been so immaculate about himself but our mother seemed to let herself go. Perhaps it was because she had so many children to take care of, or even that her marriage had soured, who knows? Whatever it was that was going on with her personally at the time was immensely overshadowed by the fact that her husband was dead, a...

James Beard Award-nominated Chef Todd Richards shares his personal culinary exploration of soul food.Black American chefs and cooks are often typecast as the experts of only one cuisine-soul food, but Todd Richards' food is anything but stereotypical. Taste his Hot-Chicken-Style Country-Fried Lamb Steak or Blueberry-Sweet Tea-Brined Chicken Thighs as evidence. While his dishes are rooted in family and the American cuisine known as soul food, he doesn't let his herit...