Pirates You Don't Know

“In this beautiful book about striving and surviving, every essay displays a well-stocked brain grappling with life’s thorny problems.”—Debra Monroe, author of On the Outskirts of Normal   For nearly ten years John Griswold has been publishing his essays in Inside Higher Ed , McSweeney’s Internet Tendency , Brevity , Ninth Letter , and Adjunct Advocate , many under the pen name Oronte Churm. Churm’s topics have ranged widely, exploring themes such as the writing life and the utility of crea