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Brief encounters : a collection of contemporary nonfiction / edited by Judith Kitchen and Dinah Lenney.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393350999
  • 0393350991
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The best of short literary memoirs, essays, and reflections,many of which were written expressly for this collection.Also available

The late Judith Kitchen, editor of the perennially popular anthologies Short Takes, In Short , and In Brief, was greatly influential in recognizing and establishing flash creative nonfiction as a form in its own right. In Brief Encounters , she and writer/editor/actor Dinah Lenney expand this vibrant field with nearly eighty new selections: shorts--as these sharply focused pieces have come to be known-- representing an impressive range of voices, perspectives, sensibilities, and forms. Brief Encounters features the work of the emerging and the established--including Stuart Dybek, Roxanne Gay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Jamison, and Julian Barnes--arranged by theme to explore the human condition in ways intimate, idiosyncratic, funny, sad, provocative, lyrical, unflinching. From the rant to the rave, the meditation to the polemic, the confession to the valediction, this collection of shorts--this celebration of true and vivid prose--will enlarge your world.

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.

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.

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