TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kitchen,Judith
AU  - Lenney,Dinah
TI  - Brief encounters: a collection of contemporary nonfiction 
SN  - 9780393350999
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - American prose literature
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Reportage literature, American
KW  - Essays
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Aphorisms & ten-second essays; James Richardson --; What I hear; Martha Cooley --; Listen; Geeta Kothari --; Dispatch from Montevideo, in which the Madden family flies to Uruguay and plays the lottery; Patrick Madden --; One long sentence; Sven Birkerts --; Why I travel; Pico Iyer --; La plata perdida; Leslie Jamison --; What didn't happen; Anika Fajardo --; Summer days, 1983; Ira Sukrungruang --; Excerpt from Don't let me be lonely; Claudia Rankine --; White; Harrison Candelaria Fletcher --; Passover rental furniture: Houston; S.L. Wisenberg --; Brief treatise against irony; Lia Purpura --; Cocoons; Barbara Hurd --; Max and Minna; Phillip Lopate --; No results found; Nicholas Montemarano --; Parental pride; Scott Nadelson --; Thoughts on time after viewing Christian Marclay's The clock; Chris Daley --; The Renaissance; Lynne Sharon Schwartz --; A tale of two cities; David L. Ulin --; Sputnik 2; Steven Harvey --; Why the long face?; Jennifer Finney Boylan --; Home on the prairie: Lincoln, Nebraska; Meghan Daum --; There are distances between us; Roxane Gay --; Spokane is a coat: 1978; Kim Barnes --; O pioneers!; Benjamin Anastas --; Stranded; Jill Talbot --; Things gone the way of time; Rebecca McClanahan --; 4 for Easter; Jeff Oaks --; Chess piece; Bill Capossere --; Red; Jericho Parms --; Umbrellas; Nancy Geyer --; Star light, star bright; Jane Brox --; Wild life; Cheryl Merrill --; American animal; Liz Stephens --; What the osprey knows; Pam Houston --; Clotheslines; M.J. Iuppa --; Foul ball; Greg Glazner --; Post-game; Jonathan Wilson --; The fan; Eduardo Galeano --; Joltin' Joe has left and gone away; Tod Goldberg --; The insomniac manifesto; Bernard Cooper --; Viennese pathology museum; Amy Gerstler --; Ichthyosis; Jennifer Culkin --; Los Angelitos; Emily Rapp --; The summer after; Tracy Dougherty --; How to banish melancholy; Abigail Thomas --; Brooding; Michael Martone --; Fats; Hilton Als --; Hoffmanniana; Marjorie Sandor --; When you write about murder; Joe Mackall --; Traffic; Jim Krusoe --; Securing District Four; J. Malcolm Garcia --; Winter journal: the first three pages; Paul Auster --; If Mr. Clean had been my father; Dinty W. Moore --; The nun; Peggy Shumaker --; Swerve; Brenda Miller --; Between; Stuart Dybek --; A brief history of water; Lance Larsen --; Water rising; Leila Philip --; Crease; Barrie Jean Borich --; The wardrobe series; Kate Carroll de Gutes --; Mom x 3; Joan Wickersham --; Gifts; Suzanne Berne --; Thanksgiving picnic; Naomi Shihab Nye --; the Blur family; Joe Bonomo --; Who; Judith Kitchen --; A thousand Mary Doyles; Sonja Livingston --; Swing; Josette Kubaszyk --; Hunger; Emily Holt --; A phone call with my father; Paul Lisicky --; Future imperfect; Dinah Lenney --; Grief; Julian Barnes --; The desire to write about The green line; Wayne Koestenbaum --; Motes in the light; Lawrence Weschler --; Reading; Patricia Hampl --; The revolution needs a song; Marvin Bell
N2  - 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
ER  -