Positively Toward the Negative

Positively Toward the Negative collects four years of John Sheirer's popular columns from his hometown paper, The Daily Hampshire Gazette. Each piece features Sheirer's trademark ability to connect complex issues with everyday experience. Strong-willed but not inflexible, literary but not abstract, humorous but not cynical, and insightful but not pedantic, Sheirer's accessible essays offer a look at specific moments in this crazy time that we've been slogging through while also placing events from 2016 to 2020 in the context of deeper history, society, and culture. Readers will experience this book as an important conversation with a trusted friend who comforts, challenges, and inspires-all at the same time.