The Poetics of Wrongness is a collection of essay/talks that the poet Rachel Zucker, expanded from lectures presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2016.
WINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from CLMPA collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature.
Thank You for Not Reading is a biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promoted because of sex appeal instead of merit, and editors trying to look like writers by having their photograph taken against a background of bookshelves.
The world's leading chocolate taster shares his wild ride to attain the most envied job, and explains his warning heard around the world: that we might soon run out of chocolate.
During his many years writing for publications such as LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Slake, Surfer's Journal and more, Joe Donnelly has driven to Texas with Wes Anderson, shot pool with Sean Penn, surfed with Chris Malloy, sparred (verbally) with Christian Bale, gone on a date with Carmen Electra, and listened to tall tales told by Werner Herzog.
Readers familiar with Lia Purpura's highly praised essay collections-Becoming, On Looking, and Rough Likeness-will know she's a master of observation, a writer obsessed with the interplay between humans and the things they see.
Beyond Measure is a fascinating exploration of the rituals, routines, metrics and expectations through which we attempt to quantify and ascribe value to our lives.
"e;It is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea,"e; Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her essay.
"e;Threading the subtle seam between what lives and what remains, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause succeeds in conjuring the poetry of Marcel Marceau's performance as both a character on stage and in history.
It is rare now for people to stay where they were raised, and when we encounter one anotherwhether in person or, increasingly, onlineit is usually in contexts that obscure if not outright hide details about our past.
National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New Yorker Best Book of 2019A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019"e;Tumarkin presents a remarkable tour de force .
One hundred of today's most prominent literary and cultural icons talk about the books that hold a special place in their heartsthat made them who they are today.
The 1970s were a heyday for Los Angeles, Hollywood was being revolutionized, the music business was booming, and authors like Joan Didion were producing great novels about the realities of living in the land of eternal sunshine.
The heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking memoir-essay-fiction-hybrid Trilogy of Memory, which won him the prestigious Cervantes Prize, finds Pitol boldly and passionately weaving fiction and autobiography together to tell of his life lived through the written word as a way to stave off the advancement of a degenerative neurological condition causing him to lose the use of language.
Part retrospective, part memoir, Fenton Johnson's collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality, religion, geography, the AIDS crisis, and more.
That art should once have been markedwith this delicacy: always only oneof each thing made, so that your poemhas its one life on the sheetyou have chosen for it, or the snapshotof the birthday party, everythingin the room upended by the children'sjubilation, survives onlyin the single defended piece of glass.
FollowingImagined Places, Pearson continues exploring place and writing as he mentally revisits locations that have influenced him through his lifechildhood home, family vacations, the various places hes taught, etc.
Michael Pearson writes about his travels to places of literary import: Frost's Vermont, Faulkner's Mississippi, Flannery O'Connor's Georgia, Hemingway's Key West, Steinbeck's California, and Twain's Missouri.
In The City at Three PM, award-winning fiction writer Peter LaSalle offers 11 startlingly original personal essays dealing with his longtime quest for world travel of the literary sort.
Three Minus One: Parents' Stories of Love and Loss is a collection of intimate, soul-baring stories and artwork by parents who have lost a child to stillbirth, miscarriage, or neonatal death, inspired by the film Return to Zero.
Nearly ten years after her husband was killed in a car accident-and three days before the 2003 release of her first edition of this book-Paula Moulton took a risk and enrolled in a ten-month wine management program at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris.
Committed to exploring the role of poetry and poets in our culture, Stephen Dunn provides new, expanded versions of the essays originally published by W.
I taught undergraduates for forty-five years (the last thirty at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee), and for most of those years I spent as much time as possible outside.
Old Mother, Little Catis a highly readable memoir of Gerbers mothers decline in health and how their relationship grew during this time, blended in with Gerbers finding a kitten and her developing relationship with Max (the name she gives the kitten).
* 2018 12 best books to give this holiday season TODAY (Elizabeth Acevedo)* A Best Book of 2017 Rolling Stone(2018), NPR, Buzzfeed,Paste Magazine,Esquire,Chicago Tribune, Vol.
In any given year, one in four Americans suffers from a diagnosable mental illnessand yet there is still a significant stigma attached to being labeled as mentally ill.
Creative nonfiction is the literary equivalent of jazz: its a rich mix of flavors, ideas, voices, and techniquessome newly invented, and others as old as writing itself.
