Fred Waitzkin

Book Review: “Anything Is Good” — An Unforgettable Look at Life at the Margins

July 18, 2024
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Fred Waitzkin’s beautiful, sad book will stay with me forever.

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Author Interview: Fred Waitzkin on “Strange Love”

July 2, 2021
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One reason Fred Waitzkin’s work, outside of Searching for Bobby Fischer, is not as well known as it might be is that it doesn’t respect time-honored boundaries between fiction and nonfiction.

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Book Review: “The Dream Merchant” — Gambling with Power and Possibility

April 20, 2013
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Part of what made “The Dream Merchant” so compelling, and at times, harrowing, a read for me are its themes: love, loss, rags and riches, to be sure, but also the theme of aging, and associated loss of power and possibility.

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