The Crow’s Dinner is Jonathan Carroll’s debut essay collection. Gathering together hundreds of entries that initially appeared on the website Medium, The Crow’s Dinner is at once a wide-ranging spiritual autobiography and an annotated guide to what Carroll calls “The Map of Me.”

Beginning with an appreciation of “The Invisibles,” those insignificant moments we overlook at our peril, The Crow’s Dinner encompasses a range of incidents, ideas, and images that illuminate the inner and outer weather of the artist. This volume contains fragments of autobiography, reflections on the nature of creativity, recreations of chance encounters, and meditations on the complexity—and unpredictability—of human relationships. It is a book filled with vignettes, bursts of whimsy, and observations filtered through his sensibility.

Jonathan Carroll speaks in direct, unmediated fashion about the things that matter most: love, lust, books, dogs, food, friendship—and the transforming power of the imagination.