{"product_id":"starting-from-paterson","title":"Starting from Paterson","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eStarting from Paterson\u003c\/em\u003e, Garret Keizer's essays are by turns challenging, funny, searching, biting, and profound. In other words, there's much to admire in each and every one of them.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e-Richard Russo, author of \u003cem\u003eEmpire Falls\u003c\/em\u003e \u0026amp; the North Bath trilogy of \u003cem\u003eFool\u003c\/em\u003e novels\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eStarting from Paterson\u003c\/em\u003e is refreshingly propelled not by self-absorption, but by a vigorous and intimate engagement with the surrounding world. And no matter how ordinary that world may appear-whether it's the produce aisle of a local supermarket or the cozy book nook of an aging department store-it can gleam with a beatific luminosity. These essays perform a delicate alchemy as they subtly transmute the mundane into the magical.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e-Robert Atwan, founder of \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Essays\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"In these marvelous essays, Keizer writes with teeth and tenderness-about mercy, music, labor, and love. From Marx to Motown, along the picket line, the church pew, the aisles of a rural Vermont grocery, his moral vision is capacious and unflinching, capable of articulating capitalism's betrayals in a can of soup and finding grace in taking out the trash. I loved this book.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e-Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize winner \u0026amp; author of \u003cem\u003eHomeland Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Starting from Paterson \u003c\/em\u003eis a pleasure from beginning to end, full of fresh insights and revealing observations of everyone from a Vermont grocery store clerk with a Las Vegas past to Doctor Johnson and Smokey Robinson. Keizer has the Chekhovian capacity to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, as well as to tease out unexpected complexity in figures we thought we knew well. His authorial voice is relaxed, unpretentious, and personal without ever sliding into self-absorption. The old Rutgers slogan applies to him: 'Jersey Roots, Global Reach.' The sort of man you'd like to have on the barstool next to yours.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e -Jackson Lears, author of \u003cem\u003eAnimal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street \u003c\/em\u003e\u0026amp; Editor Emeritus of \u003cem\u003eRaritan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"When you start from Paterson, as Keizer has, both in a literal and literary sense, the journey ahead will be informed by that New Jersey city's quintessential industrial, ethnic, and working-class roots.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e -\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eStarting From Paterson\u003c\/em\u003e Garret Keizer, called \"the finest essayist writing today\" by Jeff Sharlet, collects essays on an adult's supermarket perplexity, a child's religious formation, The search for the Northwest Passage, meeting Colonel Sanders and Paul Farmer, his love for his father-in-law, and the labor struggles that led to an eight-hour day, all connected to the author's roots in Paterson, NJ, and the woman he came to love there. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781958094709, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eKeizer, Garret\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGARRET KEIZER is the author of ten books, including GETTING SCHOOLED: THE REEDUCATION OF AN AMERICAN TEACHER, PRIVACY, and THE UNWANTED SOUND OF EVERYTHING WE WANT: A BOOK ABOUT NOISE. He was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1953 and married his wife, Kathleen Keizer, in 1975. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, Keizer is also a contributing editor of HARPER'S MAGAZINE and VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW. His essays have appeared in THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR, BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, HARVARD REVIEW, KENYON REVIEW, LAPHAM'S QUARTERLY, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, MOTHER JONES, RARITAN, SALMAGUNDI, THE NEW REPUBLIC, and THE NEW YORK TIMES, among others. He has been interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered, Marketplace, The Diane Rehm Show, and The Colbert Report. He and his family have resided for more than 40 years in the rural Northeast Kingdom region of Vermont. 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