Brief Encounters
A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction
Published on 5. November 2015
352 pages
978-0-393-35100-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.More details
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- James Richardson : Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays
- Martha Cooley : What I Hear
- Geeta Kothari : Listen
- Patrick Madden : Dispatch from Montevideo, in which the Madden family flies to Uruguay and plays the lottery
- Sven Birkerts : One Long Sentence
- Pico Iyer : Why I Travel
- Leslie Jamison : La Plata Perdida
- Anika Fajardo : What Didn't Happen
- Ira Sukrungruang : Summer Days, 1983
- Claudia Rankine : Excerpt from Don't Let Me Be Lonely
- Harrison Candelaria Fletcher : White
- S. L. Wisenberg : Passover Rental Furniture: Houston
- Lia Purpura : Brief Treatise Against Irony
- Barbara Hurd : Cocoons
- Phillip Lopate : Max and Minna
- Nicholas Montemarano : No Results Found
- Scott Nadelson : Parental Pride
- Chris Daley : Thoughts on Time After Viewing Christian Marclay's The Clock
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz : The Renaissance
- David L. Ulin : A Tale of Two Cities
- Steven Harvey : Sputnik 2
- Jennifer Finney Boylan : Why the Long Face?
- Meghan Daum : Home on the Prairie: Lincoln, Nebraska
- Roxane Gay : There Are Distances Between Us
- Kim Barnes : Spokane Is a Coat: 1978
- Benjamin Anastas : O Pioneers!
- Jill Talbot : Stranded
- Rebecca McClanahan : Things Gone the Way of Time
- Jeff Oaks : 4 for Easter
- Bill Capossere : Chess Piece
- Jericho Parms : Red
- Nancy Geyer : Umbrellas
- Jane Brox : Star Light, Star Bright
- Cheryl Merrill : Wild Life
- Liz Stephens : American Animal
- Pam Houston : What the Osprey Knows
- M. J. Iuppa : Clotheslines
- Greg Glazner : Foul Ball
- Jonathan Wilson : Post-Game
- Eduardo Galeano : The Fan
- Tod Goldberg : Joltin' Joe Has Left and Gone Away
- Bernard Cooper : The Insomniac Manifesto
- Amy Gerstler : Viennese Pathology Museum
- Jennifer Culkin : Ichthyosis
- Emily Rapp : Los Angelitos
- Tracy Daugherty : The Summer After
- Abigail Thomas : How to Banish Melancholy
- Michael Martone : Brooding
- Hilton Als : Fats
- Marjorie Sandor : Hoffmanniana
- Joe Mackall : When You Write About Murder
- Jim Krusoe : Traffic
- J. Malcolm Garcia : Securing District Four
- Paul Auster : Winter Journal: The First Three Pages
- Dinty W. Moore : If Mr. Clean Had Been My Father
- Peggy Shumaker : The Nun
- Brenda Miller : Swerve
- Stuart Dybek : Between
- Lance Larsen : A Brief History of Water
- Leila Philip : Water Rising
- Barrie Jean Borich : Crease
- Kate Carroll de Gutes : The Wardrobe Series
- Joan Wickersham : Mom x 3
- Suzanne Berne : Gifts
- Naomi Shihab Nye : Thanksgiving Picnic
- Joe Bonomo : The Blur Family
- Judith Kitchen : Who
- Sonja Livingston : A Thousand Mary Doyles
- Josette Kubaszyk : Swing
- Emily Holt : Hunger
- Paul Lisicky : A Phone Call with My Father
- Dinah Lenney : Future Imperfect
- Julian Barnes : Grief
- Wayne Koestenbaum : The Desire to Write About The Green Line
- Lawrence Weschler : Motes in the Light
- Patricia Hampl : Reading
- Marvin Bell : The Revolution Needs a Song
- Alphabetical Table of Contents
- Appendix: List of Themes
- Bios
- Photo Credits
- Permissions
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
