"My old colleague Bill Burkett always knew how to spin a word just right or turn a lovely phrase. And he does that here with an outstanding collection of short stories that take you inside his world as a journalist, hunter, and literary adventurer." - Hollis George, critic and bibliophile "Immolation of someone else's diary was not how I had planned to start my day - it was a mean grey old morning, but I didn't know then that was what to call it ..." From surveillance of a yellow convertible in South Carolina to conversation with a streetwalker on Sunset Boulevard to a visit to Hemingway's grave in Idaho, the writer builds a mural of life in the last half of the twentieth century.