Bob Kunzinger is a non-fiction writer whose work has appeared in the Southern Humanities Review, WW2 History, The Chronicle of Higher Education, St Anthony Messenger, Ilanot Review, Kestrel, the Washington Post and many others. He has authored ten books of essays including Penance, still very popular in Prague, and Borderline Crazy, a collection of essays which includes several noted by Best American Essays. His narrative memoir, The Iron Scar: A Father and Son in Siberia, from Madville Publishing, has been praised by author/actor Martin Sheen, Newsday, Yahoo! Entertainment, and author Tim O'Brien.
About The Iron Scar:
"I wish every book I've read over the past two months had been as moving, gripping, and loaded with fascinating information. The journey becomes and emotional and thematic whole that transcends the standard "look what I saw" travel book. Well done!" --Tim O'Brien
"The Iron Scar brought me on a journey that unexpectedly and artfully had me thinking about my own father and my sons throughout the book." --Martin Sheen
About A Third Place:
Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried) wrote:
Last night I finished reading A Third Place and was every bit as impressed as I thought I’d be. I’m too often blind to the world around me, snagged up inside myself, and your book made me keenly—even painfully—aware of all I had been missing. I was frequently startled by how things I would’ve passed by without notice caught your attention, then caught your writer’s sensibility, then led to ruminations that embraced not only the natural world but also meanings and associations at the core of life itself, including human consciousness, human behavior, and human yearning. It’s a beautifully written book. And a beautifully thought book.
Midwest Book Reviews wrote:
An absorbing read from cover to cover, “A Third Place: Notes in Nature” clearly documents author Bob Kunzinger as an especially gifted writer and essayist who is able to engage and keep his reader’s thoughtful attention from beginning to end. “A Third Place: Notes in Nature” is unreservedly recommended for personal reading lists, as well as both community and academic library collections.
