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Overview
Ander Monson is the author, most recently, of Letter to a Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, and Other Ephemera Found in Libraries (Graywolf Press). He is also the author of Vanishing Point, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Neck Deep and Other Predicaments.
Craig Reinbold's writing has appeared in journals and magazines including the Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, New England Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, and Brevity. He was the managing editor of Essay Daily from 2013 to 2016.
Contributors include: Ander Monson, Marcia Aldrich, Kristen Radtke, Robin Hemley, Robert Atwan, Matt Dube, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, T. Clutch Fleischmann, Rigoberto González, Kati Standefer, Julie Lauterbach-Colby, César Diaz, Emily Deprang, Lucas Mann, Danica Novgorodoff, Bonnie J. Rough, Peter Grandbois, Albert Goldbarth, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Steven Church, Bethany Maile, David Legault, Joni Tevis, John D'Agata, Meehan Crist,Thomas Mira Y Lopez, Danielle Deulen, John T. Price, Maya L. Kapoor, Chelsea Biondolillo, Megan Kimble, Brian Doyle, Nicole Walkder, Paul Lisicky, Brian Oliu, Pam Houston, Dave Mondy, Phillip Lopate, Amy Benson, Patrick Madden, Elena Passarello, Erin Zwiener, Patricia Vigderman, and Ryan Van Meter.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781566894579 |
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| Publisher: | Coffee House Press |
| Publication date: | 03/14/2017 |
| Pages: | 275 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Craig Reinbold’s writing has appeared in journals and magazines including the Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, New England Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, and Brevity. He was the managing editor of Essay Daily from 2013-2016, and at the moment spends his days alternately hanging out with his two toddler boys and studying to become a nurse.
Table of Contents
Here's How You Use the Lion Mints: An Introduction to How We Speak to One Another Ander Monson 1
Invisible Engineering: The Fine Art of Revising "The Fine Art of Sighing" Marcia Aldrich 11
On Chris Marker's Sans Soleil Kristen Radtke 19
Majestic Ruins: Robin Hemley on the Work of James Agee 29
On Essays, Assays, and Yiyun Li's "Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life" V. V. Ganeshananthan 33
The Assault on Prose: John Crowe Ransom, New Criticism, and the Status of the Essay Robert Atwan 39
On Joan Didion, Repo Man, and a '76 Malibu Matt Dube 47
On Collage, Chris Kraus, and Misremembered Didion Aisha Sabatini Sloan 53
Looking for Samuel Delany T Clutch Fleischmann 57
Observations about Writing Memoir in My Twenties, Thirties, and Forties Rigoberto González 63
On the Mysterious Leslie Ryan and the Structure of a Trauma Narrative Katherine E. Standefer 73
On Arianne Zwartjes's "This Suturing of Wounds or Words" and Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel's "Cannulated Screw" Julie Lauterbach-Colby 77
Living within the Ellipses: César Díaz on Ilan Stavans's On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language 81
On Joan Didion, on the Morning After My Twenties Emily Deprang 87
On Writing Young Lucas Mann 91
On Losing Yourself Danica Novgorodoff 97
Is the Essay at the End of Time? Ken Chen 107
E-mail from Bonnie J. Rough 117
On the Essential Art of Failing Peter Grandbois 119
Leaping Albert Goldbarth 129
Julian Barnes Brings Light to a Thanatophobe's Conundrum Alison Hawthorne Deming 133
On Tom Junod's "The Falling Man" Steven Church 137
We Sought but Couldn't Find: Coming Up Empty in David Shields's "Death Is the Mother of Beauty" Bethany Maile 141
Movie Quotes as Misery: David Legault on Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely 147
A Paperback Cabinet of Wonder: Unlocking the Long Lyric Essay Joni Tevis 151
The Essays of Ansel Adams: An Allegory John D'Agata 159
10 Thoughts on Elision Meehan Crist 161
On Donald Hall's 'Out the Window" Thomas Mira Y Lopez 163
On the Virtues of Drowning: Lidia Yuknavitch's The Chronology of Water Danielle Cadena Deulen 169
On Hoagland, Animal Obsession, and the Courage of Simile John T. Price 175
On David Quammen and Writing Trout Maya L. Kapoor 183
On Long Winters, Short Essays, and a Sky That Stretches Forever Chelsea Biondolillo 187
On Wendell Berry and Why I'm Not Going to Buy a Smartphone Megan Kimble 195
It Is a Shaggy World, Studded with Gardens Brian Doyle 199
Nonaction Like a Brick Nicole Walker 205
On the Fugue, Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?, DFW, and the Resistance to the One Thing Paul Lisicky 215
On The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling by David Shoemaker Brian Oliu 219
On Rick Reilly's "Need a Fourth?" from Sports Illustrated, March 31, 1997 Pam Houston 223
On Jim Bouton's Ball Four Dave Mondy 229
On a Little-Known Gem by Max Beerbohm Phillip Lopate 243
On Eliot Weinberger's "Wrens" Amy Benson 249
On Charles Lamb's "New Year's Eve" Patrick Madden 253
On the Book of Days Elena Passarello 257
On the False Glint of Fool's Gold and Cliché Erin Zwiener 261
The Present of Our Past: Patricia Vigderman on Alexander Stille 267
A Fat Man Story: Ander Monson on H. L. Mencken's "A Neglected Anniversary" 271
On Endings: All in All, It Was a Really Weird Summer Ryan Van Meter 281
Bibliography 287
Contributors 299