Bøger af William Snyder

It's the day after Christmas. Bill Snyder, a disillusioned high school teacher who's pretty sure he's been receiving signs from a higher power, feels compelled to wander up a mountain trail and into a mysterious valley where he undergoes a bona fide transcendental experience. Snyder's grizzled spirit guide leads him on a strange and powerful journey of self-discovery with Ernest Hemingway, the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz, and a mystical procession of curious characters at The Spirit Guide Bar.

THE EIGHT-FINGERED CRIMINAL'S SON is a quirky collection of mostly true stories about growing up in 1970s Southern California.

This book is the photography of ten high school students, aged 14-17 that attended the sixth year of RIT's Introduction to Photojournalism for High School Students Workshop basic course in photography and photojournalism. Many of these students had very limited photographic experience coming into the Workshop. This book is the culmination of their two days of photographing at The Hemlock Little World's Fair in Hemlock, NY.

The plan was to teach for a year, make a little dough, and get back to doing stand-up comedy. The comedy routine got lost in the shuffle and William Snyder's one year gig stretched into a 29-year career that included stints teaching at inner-city schools, Catholic schools, charter schools, accommodation schools, and boys reformatories, in addition to working as a satellite TV teacher and teaching at an upper-middle-class "normal" school that turned out to be anything but normal. William Snyder's stories are gritty, poignant, funny, and often bizarre, honestly recounting the triumphs and disasters associated with teaching poor kids, rich kids, incarcerated kids, immigrant kids, pregnant kids, autistic kids, and just about any other kinda kid you might imagine.

Bill Snyder writes lovely poems. They are subtly evocative, conveying feelings largely through meticulous descriptions of surroundings. The locale remains unnamed, a port town with a cathedral and steep hillsides where fishermen bring home octopi and women cook cabbage soup. Often the speaker is "we" though sometimes the other person barely appears. Yet even these are love poems, a sharing of experience. This is a moving and worthy collection.-Hunt Hawkins, author of Teaching Approaches to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and The Secret SharerWilliam Snyder's Hunger in a Cat's Yellow Eye, the latest of his chapbooks, is a trip to "where the sea curves far away ...," a land of octopus men and octopus urns, of "tilts and shadows ... felt in everything," a land where "...old coaches- /sides of slatted wood, netted racks/ above the open windows-trundle over/ sagging track..." These poems come from the able hands of a poet whose lines, thoughts, descriptions, and honesties won't disappoint. For all of us hungry creatures, Snyder's work "... returns us to (the best of) ourselves ... a basin filled with dance, with joy ..." -Sharon Chmielarz, author of The J Horoscope