Brief encounters : a collection of contemporary nonfiction /
Brief encounters : a collection of contemporary nonfiction /
edited by Judith Kitchen and Dinah Lenney.
- First edition.
- 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Aphorisms & ten-second essays / What I hear / Listen / Dispatch from Montevideo, in which the Madden family flies to Uruguay and plays the lottery / One long sentence / Why I travel / La plata perdida / What didn't happen / Summer days, 1983 / Excerpt from Don't let me be lonely / White / Passover rental furniture: Houston / Brief treatise against irony / Cocoons / Max and Minna / No results found / Parental pride / Thoughts on time after viewing Christian Marclay's The clock / The Renaissance / A tale of two cities / Sputnik 2 / Why the long face? / Home on the prairie: Lincoln, Nebraska / There are distances between us / Spokane is a coat: 1978 / O pioneers! / Stranded / Things gone the way of time / 4 for Easter / Chess piece / Red / Umbrellas / Star light, star bright / Wild life / American animal / What the osprey knows / Clotheslines / Foul ball / Post-game / The fan / Joltin' Joe has left and gone away / The insomniac manifesto / Viennese pathology museum / Ichthyosis / Los Angelitos / The summer after / How to banish melancholy / Brooding / Fats / Hoffmanniana / When you write about murder / Traffic / Securing District Four / Winter journal: the first three pages / If Mr. Clean had been my father / The nun / Swerve / Between / A brief history of water / Water rising / Crease / The wardrobe series / Mom x 3 / Gifts / Thanksgiving picnic / the Blur family / Who / A thousand Mary Doyles / Swing / Hunger / A phone call with my father / Future imperfect / Grief / The desire to write about The green line / Motes in the light / Reading / The revolution needs a song / James Richardson -- Martha Cooley -- Geeta Kothari -- Patrick Madden -- Sven Birkerts -- Pico Iyer -- Leslie Jamison -- Anika Fajardo -- Ira Sukrungruang -- Claudia Rankine -- Harrison Candelaria Fletcher -- S.L. Wisenberg -- Lia Purpura -- Barbara Hurd -- Phillip Lopate -- Nicholas Montemarano -- Scott Nadelson -- Chris Daley -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- David L. Ulin -- Steven Harvey -- Jennifer Finney Boylan -- Meghan Daum -- Roxane Gay -- Kim Barnes -- Benjamin Anastas -- Jill Talbot -- Rebecca McClanahan -- Jeff Oaks -- Bill Capossere -- Jericho Parms -- Nancy Geyer -- Jane Brox -- Cheryl Merrill -- Liz Stephens -- Pam Houston -- M.J. Iuppa -- Greg Glazner -- Jonathan Wilson -- Eduardo Galeano -- Tod Goldberg -- Bernard Cooper -- Amy Gerstler -- Jennifer Culkin -- Emily Rapp -- Tracy Dougherty -- Abigail Thomas -- Michael Martone -- Hilton Als -- Marjorie Sandor -- Joe Mackall -- Jim Krusoe -- J. Malcolm Garcia -- Paul Auster -- Dinty W. Moore -- Peggy Shumaker -- Brenda Miller -- Stuart Dybek -- Lance Larsen -- Leila Philip -- Barrie Jean Borich -- Kate Carroll de Gutes -- Joan Wickersham -- Suzanne Berne -- Naomi Shihab Nye -- Joe Bonomo -- Judith Kitchen -- Sonja Livingston -- Josette Kubaszyk -- Emily Holt -- Paul Lisicky -- Dinah Lenney -- Julian Barnes -- Wayne Koestenbaum -- Lawrence Weschler -- Patricia Hampl -- Marvin Bell.
A collection of the best creative nonfiction of the year includes entries by such authors as Roxanne Gay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Jamison, Julian Barnes, and Patricia Hampl.
9780393350999 0393350991
40025456986
2015024754
American prose literature--21st century.
Reportage literature, American.
Essays.
Aphorisms & ten-second essays / What I hear / Listen / Dispatch from Montevideo, in which the Madden family flies to Uruguay and plays the lottery / One long sentence / Why I travel / La plata perdida / What didn't happen / Summer days, 1983 / Excerpt from Don't let me be lonely / White / Passover rental furniture: Houston / Brief treatise against irony / Cocoons / Max and Minna / No results found / Parental pride / Thoughts on time after viewing Christian Marclay's The clock / The Renaissance / A tale of two cities / Sputnik 2 / Why the long face? / Home on the prairie: Lincoln, Nebraska / There are distances between us / Spokane is a coat: 1978 / O pioneers! / Stranded / Things gone the way of time / 4 for Easter / Chess piece / Red / Umbrellas / Star light, star bright / Wild life / American animal / What the osprey knows / Clotheslines / Foul ball / Post-game / The fan / Joltin' Joe has left and gone away / The insomniac manifesto / Viennese pathology museum / Ichthyosis / Los Angelitos / The summer after / How to banish melancholy / Brooding / Fats / Hoffmanniana / When you write about murder / Traffic / Securing District Four / Winter journal: the first three pages / If Mr. Clean had been my father / The nun / Swerve / Between / A brief history of water / Water rising / Crease / The wardrobe series / Mom x 3 / Gifts / Thanksgiving picnic / the Blur family / Who / A thousand Mary Doyles / Swing / Hunger / A phone call with my father / Future imperfect / Grief / The desire to write about The green line / Motes in the light / Reading / The revolution needs a song / James Richardson -- Martha Cooley -- Geeta Kothari -- Patrick Madden -- Sven Birkerts -- Pico Iyer -- Leslie Jamison -- Anika Fajardo -- Ira Sukrungruang -- Claudia Rankine -- Harrison Candelaria Fletcher -- S.L. Wisenberg -- Lia Purpura -- Barbara Hurd -- Phillip Lopate -- Nicholas Montemarano -- Scott Nadelson -- Chris Daley -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- David L. Ulin -- Steven Harvey -- Jennifer Finney Boylan -- Meghan Daum -- Roxane Gay -- Kim Barnes -- Benjamin Anastas -- Jill Talbot -- Rebecca McClanahan -- Jeff Oaks -- Bill Capossere -- Jericho Parms -- Nancy Geyer -- Jane Brox -- Cheryl Merrill -- Liz Stephens -- Pam Houston -- M.J. Iuppa -- Greg Glazner -- Jonathan Wilson -- Eduardo Galeano -- Tod Goldberg -- Bernard Cooper -- Amy Gerstler -- Jennifer Culkin -- Emily Rapp -- Tracy Dougherty -- Abigail Thomas -- Michael Martone -- Hilton Als -- Marjorie Sandor -- Joe Mackall -- Jim Krusoe -- J. Malcolm Garcia -- Paul Auster -- Dinty W. Moore -- Peggy Shumaker -- Brenda Miller -- Stuart Dybek -- Lance Larsen -- Leila Philip -- Barrie Jean Borich -- Kate Carroll de Gutes -- Joan Wickersham -- Suzanne Berne -- Naomi Shihab Nye -- Joe Bonomo -- Judith Kitchen -- Sonja Livingston -- Josette Kubaszyk -- Emily Holt -- Paul Lisicky -- Dinah Lenney -- Julian Barnes -- Wayne Koestenbaum -- Lawrence Weschler -- Patricia Hampl -- Marvin Bell.
A collection of the best creative nonfiction of the year includes entries by such authors as Roxanne Gay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Jamison, Julian Barnes, and Patricia Hampl.
9780393350999 0393350991
40025456986
2015024754
American prose literature--21st century.
Reportage literature, American.
Essays.