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Joseph Bottum is one of the nation’s most widely ranging thinkers, with hundreds of essays, reviews, poems, and short stories in publications from the Atlantic to the Washington Post. His books include the sociological study, An Anxious Age, and Christopher Award-winning children’s verse. his popular writing extends to obituaries in The Times of London and #1- bestselling sports essays in Amazon’s Kindle singles series, with lyrics performed by singers from Nashville to Carnegie Hall. A native of South Dakota, Bottum lives in the Black Hills, where he writes on literature, philosophy, and the American condition.
Characters who live. Dialogue so real you’ll feel you could talk to these people yourself. Prose that proves both serenely unpretentious and utterly exquisite. And the truth. The truth. Joseph Bottum has produced the most enjoyable Christmas stories you’ll ever read—and the most moving. —Peter Robinson, host of Uncommon Knowledge and former speechwriter to President Reagan Wit, wisdom, pristine prose, and Christmas. What else can you ask for? This book is bliss. —Andrew Klavan, author of The Truth and Beauty and host of The Andrew Klavan Show podcast What a Christmas present! Allegorical, humorous stories of hapless, affable gangsters, like the sarcastic tales of Damon Runyon, are counterweighted by moving reflections on Christmas in youth and adulthood, where, despite distractions, the season is still miraculous, tangible, and effective. I loved it. —Ron Hansen, author of Atticus and Mariette in Ecstasy One of America’s most gifted writers, with a perfect ear and a matchless style. —Andrew Ferguson, author of Land of Lincoln and Crazy U Joseph Bottum’s name would be mandatory on any objective short list of American public intellectuals. . . . He has the head of Christopher Lasch and the heart of Flannery O’Connor. —Mary Eberstadt, author of How the West Really Lost God and Adam and Eve After the Pill
