Lewis Buzbee

"A thoughtful and moving, but artfully unsentimental, depiction of a son's love.  Buzbee achieves a complex amalgam of celebration and lament; his narrator adores his father and sees his 'heroic life' as a model of manhood, but precisely because of this adoration, he experiences his dad's loss as a catastrophic blow. Overall, it's an admirably meditative exploration of the depths and travails of a father-son relationship."

Kirkus Reviews

On the morning that his father, Navy deep-sea diver Mac Macoby, dies of a heart attack, 12-year-old Robert is engulfed by the memories that tie them together. The memories come in fragments, some broken, some incomplete, but together they form the portrait of a man shaped by the tides of history, not a hero's life but a heroic one, nonetheless. Diver is about one California family in the 1960s, and about every family, a novel about the rigors of military life amid the turbulence of the counterculture movement, a novel of how memory can fail us, serve us, and support us through loss.

A love letter to, and a history of, this most important and pleasurable place

Set in Steinbeck's home town of Salinas, CA, the novel is an exploration of where one actually finds a home

The worst field trip ever turns into a time-travel adventure when best friends Joan Lee and Lee Jones wake up in 1864, and their tour guide is a young reporter named Sam Clemens

Meg's brother Orion has gone missing, so she and family friend Charles Dickens set off in search of him through London's seamy underworld

A history of the classroom through the lens of my own school experience, and a call for a renewed commitment to public education

Each of these stories is about the peril and privilege of being a parent

My first novel, about an urban wanderer, what I like to think of as a tribute to Italo Calvino, Stanley Elkin, and Franz Kafka

My friend Dave Tilton and I each wrote novellas that end up in Modesto, California; mine's about Okies and Dave's is about God and baseball