Some of the stories are fictional, like "Investigations of a Kafkaesque Nature" about the philosophical ruminations of a dog, "An Idea for a Short Story" about a man who has suffered a stroke and comes out of it after his granddaughter reads him his poems, and "A Walk in the Desert" about a man who gets lost in the desert, has a friendly argument with God, and is rescued by those he thought were coming to kill him. Some of the stories are biographical,...