And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures

The Stormwitch

in the form of the flesh-eating menace known as the skrake

" —Sue Lynn Tan

I have an even better idea

Upstream: Selected Essays Jessica Peterson And there’s certainly no chanceOne of O, The Oprah Magazines Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language . . . Maureen Corrigan, NPRs Fresh Air Uniting essays from Olivers previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poets thoughts on the