William Hart

In the early 1960s, as the author is coming of age, he joins an amateur roller racing team loaded with champions of both sexes. He’s a varsity sprinter in track and soon excels at speed skating, traveling to meets with his coed team. Insiders know roller rinks are conspiracies to tur...

A close friend of mine, maybe the brightest student in our high school of four thousand, came to see me some years back. He came as a ghost with a favor to ask, renewing a friendship that continues a decade later. Richard has the same immature young adult personality he had when he...