Synopses & Reviews
In Breath & Other Ventures, Bill Bridges has created a companion piece to his earlier Places & Stories. But this time there's a more personal note, as he recounts how he dealt with an inherited respiratory ailment while at the same time exploring Zen breathing meditation. The other ventures of the title include a memoir constructed from notebooks of the 1970s, the story of a summer as a Washington newsman, an essay on forgotten writers, and another GeeGee Dapple detective story, about a retired British editor who solves crimes through astute journalistic observation.