Late Nite* Book Review -- Where's My Wand?
By Guest Writer: Dave Kinchen Where's My Wand? -- Eric Poole Eight-year-old Eric Poole , recently relocated from Iowa to the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, lacks the magical powers of Endora, from the TV show Bewitched, but he has a tattered chenille bedspread that mimics her caftans. His adventures through high school in the 1970s are chronicled in "Where's My Wand? One Boy's Magical Triumph Over Alienation and Shag Carpeting" (Berkeley Books Trade Paperback, 304 pages, $15.00). If you like David Sedaris, David Rakoff and Augusten Burroughs and their memoirs, you'll connect with Eric Poole's mostly hilarious and often sad, and always touching escapades -- as in the case of a Ford Pinto slamming into a bus Poole was riding with his father, Ray, up to their former home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to collect their car. The Pinto's occupants didn't survive the collision with the bus. Poole's dad, employed at a big aerospace company in St. ...