Description A sharp and unconventional book -- a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers.
-- Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude.
Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who made repose a goal, even an art for.
