Don't Save Anything

"These magazine pieces reflect the author's wide range of experience and interests as well as his prose mastery . . . Taken together, these pieces attest to a true life, a life well-lived and well-written." —Kirkus Reviews James Salter is recognized as one of America's most important writers. The author of many memorable works of fiction—including Dusk and Other Stories, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award—he is also celebrated for his memoirs and many non-fiction essays. In her preface, Kay Salter writes,"Don't Save Anythingis a volume of the best of Jim's non-fiction—articles published but never collected in one place until now. Though those many boxes were overflowing with papers, in the end it's not really a matter of quantity. These pieces reveal some of the breadth and depth of Jim's endless interest in the world and the people in it... One of the greatest pleasures in writing non-fiction is the writer's feeling of...