What I Learned: Stories, Essays, and More

During his time at the University of Pittsburgh, Joshua M. Patton studied and wrote nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. This is a collection of his best work from that time period. The first part of the book is literary fiction, short stories. Some have an inter-connected narrative, others stand alone. There are stories that play with the ideas of what stories even are. There are first-hand essays that feel like make-believe, and make-believe that seems as if it really happened. There are media analyses and histories from Rolling Stone to Fox News, including a story about Peggy Hull the first female war correspondent that history has mostly forgotten. This is a book like no other, and captures a snapshot in time of not just its subjects but of the author himself.