Face Out
Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden by Charles Goodrich
“This is the kind of book you want to read out loud. You can almost hear Garrison Keillor’s voice as you do that. And, yeah, Keillor read two of Goodrich’s dispatches on his ‘Writers Almanac’ program in April. In one of them, “Wild Geese,” Goodrich watches birds fly overhead while he is picking pole beans and imagines heading south after harvest. In a kind of synecdoche for the book, Goodrich interrupts his own reverie, reminding himself: ‘You don’t like to …
