Robert Kurson

Esquire contributing editor Robert Kurson is the author of the 2004 best–seller Shadow Divers. His new book, Crashing Through, is the true story of a blind man who regains his sight in adulthood.

Patrimony by Philip Roth (Vintage, $13). A brave and loving and beautifully honest farewell by the author to his dying father. It is impossible to read Roth’s true account without realizing how we say goodbye to our aging parents every day—and that we say goodbye to ourselves just as often.

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