There’s a wealth of information about everything from meteorites to shrapnel in Ian Frazier’s new book, but you read his work primarily for the encounter between his sensibility and the world, according to a New York Times review of Frazier’s new collection Hogs Wild by Professor of English and fellow essayist Carlo Rotella. Rotella is the author of several books, including Playing in Time:  Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories, Cut Time: An Education at the Fights and Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt.