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\"The essays in Vigderman's collection dwell not on despair, but on the project of translating chaotic experience into art or memory . . . Lyrical and graceful\" (Publishers Weekly). In this accessible collection of essays, Patricia Vigderman attempts to translate some of life's disordered events into the orderly happiness of art. She encounters manatees, children, and snakes; with Henry Adams, Marcel Proust, and W.G. Sebald; with Texas landscape, Vertigo, and Johannes Vermeer. Adams, in Japan after his wife's death, found in the elaborate ritual of the tea ceremony and in the discomforts of a rural inn, occasions for the wit to face down grief. His letters to friends coax laughter from strangeness and loss. Like Adams, Vigderman has a stylist's passion for revelatory detail, and for the pleasure of immersion in a world. Smart, generous, and probing, her discoveries play with direct experience, exploring the interaction of life and art as \"magic you can walk in and out of.\" \"In reading Vigderman's collection, for the space of the journey, we are able to step outside ourselves, or a least engage her subjects-a small town in Texas, Proust, W.G. Sebald, and yes, manatees-to find some perspective on what it is to be human.\" -The Iowa Review \"It is to this author's credit that as her essays skip tracks, locating new routes without trying to prove their points, I was never in a hurry for the motion to end.\" -The Rumpus \"Vigderman's responses are fresh and original and her sounding of our collective literary treasures are likely to send you back to read them again, now overlaid with her embroidery.\" -Mona Simpson, author of A Regular Guy
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After Montaigne
Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533-92). But save for the recent notable best sellerHow to Live: A Life of Montaigneby Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored.After Montaigne-a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute-aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear.Though it's been over four hundred years since he began writing his essays, Montaigne's writing is still fresh, and his use of the form as a means of self-exploration in the world around him reads as innovative-even by modern standards. He is, simply put, the writer to whom all essayists are indebted. Each contributor has chosen one of Montaigne's 107 essays and has written his/her own essay of the same title and on the same theme, using a quote from Montaigne's essay as an epigraph. The overall effect is akin to a covers album, with each writer offering his or her own interpretation and stylistic verve to Montaigne's themes in ways that both reinforce and challenge the French writer's prose, ideas, and forms. Featuring a who's who of contemporary essayists,After Montaigneoffers astartling engagement with Montaigne and the essay form while also pointing the way to the genre's potential new directions.
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Adventures of form and content : essays
A collection of essays about the mysteries of dualities and the multiverse that exists in everyone.
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The Best American Essays 2016
The National Book Award–winning author compiles a \"thought-provoking volume\" of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others ( Publishers Weekly).
As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 \"was whether an author had taken a risk.\" The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from championing an unpopular opinion to the possibility of ruining a professional career, or irrevocably alienating one's family. What's gained are essential insights into aspects of the human condition that would otherwise remain concealed—from questions of queer identity, to the experience of a sibling's autism and relationships between students and college professors.
The Best American Essays 2016 includes entries by Alexander Chee, Paul Crenshaw, Jaquira Diaz, Laura Kipnis, Amitava Kaumar, Sebastian Junger, Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, George Steiner, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and others.
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The destiny thief : essays on writing, writers, and life
\"In these nine essays, [the author] provides insight into his life as a writer, teacher, friend, and reader\"--Amazon.com.
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I'll Be Your Mirror
In his third book of essays, David Lazar blends personal meditations on sex and death with considerations of popular music and coping with anxiety through singing, bowling, and other distractions. He sets his work apart as both in the essay and of the essay by throwing himself into the form's past—interviewing or speaking to past masters and turning over rocks to find lost gems of the essay form.
I'll Be Your Mirror further expands the dimensions of contemporary nonfiction writing by concluding with a series of aphorisms. Surreal, comical, and urban moments of being, they are part Cioran, part Kafka, and part Lenny Bruce. These are accompanied by Heather Frise's illustrations, whose looking-glass visions of motherhood—funny and grotesque—meet the vision of the aphorist in this most unusual nonfiction book.
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The best American essays 2019
\"A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.\"-- Publisher's description.
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The Best American Essays 2013
Selected and introduced by Cheryl Strayed, the New York Times best-selling author of Wild and the writer of the celebrated column \"Dear Sugar,\" this collection is a treasure trove of fine writing and thought-provoking essays.
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