When Peter Orner was a teenager in Chicago, he stole a pair of his father’s gloves. He never wore them, but he took the gloves everywhere he moved—to college, Namibia, San Francisco and Bolinas—never telling his father. Mr. Orner, a fiction writer who has lived in Bolinas for years, often twists and warps elements of his own life to craft his fiction, but the story of the gloves could not be fictionalized; every time he…
Peter Orner: Am I Alone Here?
