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How we speak to one another : an essay daily reader / edited by Ander Monson & Craig Reinbold

Published
Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Physical Description
1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Monson, Ander, 1975- and Reinbold, Craig, 1982-
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Contents
Here's how you use the lion mints: an introduction to How We Speak to One Another / Ander Monson -- Invisible engineering: the fine art of revising "The fine art of sighing" / Marcia Aldrich -- On Christ Marker's Sans Soleil / Kristen Radtke -- Majestic ruins: on the work of James Agee / Robin Helmley -- On essays, assays, and Yiyun Li's "Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life" / V.V. Ganeshananthan -- The assault on prose: John Crowe Ransom, new criticism, and the status of the essay / Robert Atwan -- On Joan Didion, Repo Man, and a '76 Malibu / Matt Dube -- On Collage, Chris Kraus, and misremembered Didion / Aisha Sabatini Sloan -- Looking for Samuel Delany / T Clutch Fleischmann -- Observations about writing memoir in my twenties, thirties, and forties / Rigoberto González -- On the mysterious Leslie Ryan and the structure of a trauma narrative / Katherine E. Standefer -- On Arianne Zwartje's "This suturing of wounds or words" and Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel's "Cannulated screw" / Julie Lauterbach-Colby -- Living within the ellipses: on Ilan Stavan's On Borrowed Words: a Memoir of Language / César Díaz -- On Joan Didion, on the morning after my twenties / Emily Deprang -- On writing young / Lucas Mann -- On losing yourself / Danica Novgorogoff -- Is the essay at the end of time? / Ken Chen -- Email / from Bonnie J. Rough -- On the essential art of failing / Peter Grandbois -- Leaping / Albert Goldbarth -- Julian Barnes brings light to a thanatophobe's conundrum / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- On Tom Junod's "The falling man" / Steven Church -- We sought but couldn't find: coming up empty in David Shields's "Death is the mother of beauty" / Bethany Maile -- Movie quotes as misery: on Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely / David Legault -- A paperback cabinet of wonder: unlocking the long lyric essay / Joni Tevis -- The essays of Ansel Adams: an allegory / John D'Agata -- 10 thoughts on Elision / Meehan Crist -- On Donald Hall's "Out the window" / Thomas Mira y Lopez -- On the virtues of drowning: Lidia Yuknavitch's the Chronology of Water / Danielle Cadena Deulen -- On Hoagland, animal obsession, and the courage of simile / John T. Price -- On David Quammen and writing trout / Maya L. Kapoor -- On long winters, short essays, and a sky that stretches forever / Chelsea Biondolillo -- On Wendell Berry and why I'm not going to buy a smartphone / Megan Kimble -- It is a shaggy world, studded with gardens / Brian Doyle -- Nonfiction like a brick / Nicole Walker -- On the fugue, Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?, DFW, and the resistance to the one thing / Paul Lisicky -- On The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling by David Shoemaker / Brian Oliu -- On Rick Reilly's "Need a fourth?" from Sports Illustrated, March 31, 1997 / Pam Houston -- On Jim Bouton's Ball Four / Dave Mondy -- On a little-known gem by Max Beerbohm / Phillip Lopate -- On Eliot Weinberger's "Wrens" / Amy Benson -- On Charles Lamb's "New Year's Eve" / Patrick Madden -- On the Book of Days / Elena Passarello -- On the false glint of fool's gold and cliché / Erin Zweiner -- The present of our past: on Alexander Stille / Patricia Vigerman -- A fat man story: on H.L. Mencken's "A neglected anniversary" / Ander Monson -- On endings: all in all, it was a really weird summer / Ryan van Meter.
Summary
"The essay is rhizomatic: it builds off and shoots out conversations between us every time we read, reread, or write. When we speak back to others we amplify ourselves and get a foothold in an ongoing conversation. How We Speak to One Another collects those conversations, giving context to a genre, deepening the flexibility and vitality of its many forms"--
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ISBN
9781566894586 (electronic bk.)
1566894581 (electronic bk.)
9781566894579 (paperback)
1566894573 (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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