by Bill Hatcher Lantern Books, 274 pages ISBN 9781590565742 Reviewed by Martha Quillen Principles of Flight is a memoir and a treatise against war, sexism, religion, capitalism, militarism, government policies, and eating meat. It contains lots of geographic color, general information and political commentary. But it has the spirit of a literary novel, and is rife with alienation, angst, confusion and psychic pain. Hatcher focuses on classic themes: What is a man? What makes a person good? Or bad? And his book is more reminiscent of topics explored by D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce than is typical for non-fiction. Hatcher’s ...