"Since most of my job satisfaction comes from the work," he writes, "I don't get too indignant whether I'm treated like a galley slave, a potential threat, an uncomfortable example of the dark side of the labor pool, or a helpmeet and partner. The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road meshes those qualities seamlessly. When I sit in my cell, no goat bleets, no chicken cackles, no pig grunts, no duck quacks, no goose honks, no rooster crows."įinn Murphy is a hard worker and great storyteller. I love her chapters on finding refuge in the Dartmouth College Library: "Here is then the library, my rock, my refuge, my cloister. They eventually landed in Vermont for a few years of unaccustomed hardscrabble farming. In the NYRB Classics edition of The Farm in the Green Mountains, Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer chronicles a critical period in her life when she and her husband, playwright Carl Zuckmayer, fled Berlin and the Nazis.
Consider Philip Levine's poem " What Work Is." Here are a few of my recent favorites. I often read about work during my time off, which may seem counterintuitive, but work is. It's never too late to celebrate Labor Day.
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