Every now and then, you run across an intuitive, challenging and perceptive reporter – in this case Erin Skarda of Time – who helps you focus and understand your own book better than you do. I enjoyed this interview. I am humbled at the very deep chord this book is striking. Come and see if you wish. Book tour resumes in support of bookstores and libraries struggling out of the floods:

Thursday in Shelburne, Vt., Flying Pig Books, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, 7 p.m. Village Square Booksellers, Bellows Falls, Vt. 7 p.m.

Saturday, 7 p.m., talk and signing, The Bookstore Plus, Lake Placid, N.Y., raising money to help the Wells Memorial Library, Jay, N.Y., whose children’s department was destroyed in the flooding after Hurricane Irene.

Occupy good bookstores and libraries.