Life is short; art is shorter : in praise of brevity / by David Shields and Elizabeth Cooperman.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Portland, Oregon : Hawthorne Books, [2014]Description: xv, 335 pages ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0989360458
- 9780989360456
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | 801 S555 | Available | 33111008859684 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Life Is Short--Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a course's worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, post-religious age; and a meditation on the brevity of human existence.
1. We are mortal beings.
2. There is no god.
3. We live in a digital culture.
4. Art is related to the body and to the culture.
5. Art should reflect these things.
6. Brevity rules.
The book's 40 contributors include Donald Barthelme, Kate Chopin, Lydia Davis, Annie Dillard, Jonathan Safran Foer, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Jamaica Kincaid, Wayne Koestenbaum, Anne Lamott, Daphne Merkin, Rick Moody, Dinty W. Moore, George Orwell, Jayne Anne Phillips, George Saunders, Lauren Slater, James Tate, and Paul Theroux.
Includes bibliographical references.
Life Is Short--Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories: readers, writers, and teachers will get an anthology, a course's worth of writing exercises, a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, post-religious age, and a meditation on the brevity of human existence.