Escape from the Fat Farm

Grand Prize Finalist, Eric Hoffer Award. A collection of new and critically acclaimed poetry and essays, some which appeared in such publications as The New York Times, American Book Review, and Barrow Street, and others that appear here for the first time, fulfill what the late Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Lanford Wilson called McIntosh's "Gorgeous writing―so much of it is lyrical, funny and moving."

Sandy McIntosh has published sixteen volumes of nonfiction prose and poetry. He has written for The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Daily Beast, Salon, Newsday, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, American Book Review, and elsewhere. During the past two years, he has been interviewed in fourteen national and international television documentaries, including PBS Frontline, about his boyhood military school companion, Donald Trump. He has been managing editor of Long Island University's Confrontation magazine and is currently publisher of Marsh Hawk Press.