Book Review: In Paradise

WSHU | By Joan Baum

Published May 30, 2014 at 9:24 AM EDT

Connecticut and Long Island have been home to some world-renowned figures. Arts critic Joan Baum has this review of a book by one of them...a man who was co-founder of The Paris Review, a political activist, Zen teacher and National Book Award winner for both fiction and non-fiction.

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Joan Baum

Joan Baum is a recovering academic from the City University of New York, who spent 25 years teaching literature and writing. She covers all areas of cultural history but particularly enjoys books at the nexus of the humanities and the sciences.

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