<p><em>The Life in the Sky Comes Down </em>is a book that looks at teaching at New York University while the Twin Towers fell; at Lisa de Kooning riding a horse as the police followed closely behind her; at working in a theatre company directed by Edward Albee; and at love between men in a time when that love is charged with risk. Through essays, stories, and a hybrid of the two, <em>The Life in the Sky Comes Down</em> thinks about how essays and stories might speak to each other in an effort to expand what both can do.</p>