How to Be a Hermit (Annotated)

How to Be a Hermit is Will Cuppy's wry account of retreating from modern society to a modest shack on Jones Island, off Long Island's South Shore. Cast as a mock manual for self-sufficient living, the book transforms domestic inconvenience, solitude, cooking, weather, and local fauna into polished comic essays. Its style is exact, deadpan, and deceptively casual, belonging to the American traditio...