PTOLEMY TOMPKINS is the author of This Tree Grows out of Hell (HarperSanFrancisco) — a study of Aztec myth and ritual — and two memoirs: Paradise Fever (Quill) and The Beaten Path (William Morrow & Company). He lives in New York City.

Three Short Essays

by Ptolemy C. Tompkins, September 2004 (Issue 345)