The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New by Annie Dillard Autumn Mark Mayfield is a former

Mark Mayfield is a former pastor

David-versus-Goliath conflict

Mark Merriwether Vorderbruggen

pass down their histories in elaborate "story cloths" to a midcentury British women's postal art exchange

The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New by Annie Dillard Autumn Mark Mayfield is a formerIn recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the Pulitzer Prize winning author herself. With a foreword by Geoff Dyer. "A writer who never seems tired, who has never plodded her way through a page or sentence, Dillard can only be enjoyed by a wide awake reader," warns Geoff Dyer in his foreword to this stellar collection.