cover image It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

Robert Fulghum. Ivy Books, $7.99 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-8041-0582-8

This nationally bestselling collection of essays points out the joys of lightheartedness and describes ways to deal with absurd situations. ``The selections beguile and educate, whatever the subject, but most moving is Fulghum's short biography of John Pierpont the writer of ``Jingle Bells'', PW saidpk . Author tour. (Apr.)