Michael Seltzer: 3 books

Listening to the Welfare State presents, for the first time in English, central research findings from recent studies of the welfare systems of Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. The book’s contributors are leading investigators of face-to-face encounters between welfare professionals and clients...

The opening paragraph: "I awoke to the ear-shattering sound of a banshee screaming. It was rather annoying actually. I still had some more lazy time due to me before my next shift, but who can immediately fall back to sleep after a sound like that? On most days I'd have found it rather pleasant to hear...

New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...