Research Catalog

Title

Brief encounters : a collection of contemporary nonfiction / edited by Judith Kitchen and Dinah Lenney.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kitchen, Judith
• Lenney, Dinah

Description

350 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

A collection of the best creative nonfiction of the year includes entries by such authors as Roxanne Gay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Jamison, Julian Barnes, and Patricia Hampl.

Subject

• 2000 - 2099
• American prose literature > 21st century
• Reportage literature, American
• American prose literature
• Reportage literature, American

Genre/Form

• Essays
• Essays.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Aphorisms & ten-second essays / James Richardson -- What I hear / Martha Cooley -- Listen / Geeta Kothari -- Dispatch from Montevideo, in which the Madden family flies to Uruguay and plays the lottery / Patrick Madden -- One long sentence / Sven Birkerts -- Why I travel / Pico Iyer -- La plata perdida / Leslie Jamison -- What didn't happen / Anika Fajardo -- Summer days, 1983 / Ira Sukrungruang -- Excerpt from Don't let me be lonely / Claudia Rankine -- White / Harrison Candelaria Fletcher -- Passover rental furniture: Houston / S.L. Wisenberg -- Brief treatise against irony / Lia Purpura -- Cocoons / Barbara Hurd -- Max and Minna / Phillip Lopate -- No results found / Nicholas Montemarano -- Parental pride / Scott Nadelson -- Thoughts on time after viewing Christian Marclay's The clock / Chris Daley -- The Renaissance / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- A tale of two cities / David L. Ulin -- Sputnik 2 / Steven Harvey -- Why the long face? / Jennifer Finney Boylan -- Home on the prairie: Lincoln, Nebraska / Meghan Daum -- There are distances between us / Roxane Gay -- Spokane is a coat: 1978 / Kim Barnes -- O pioneers! / Benjamin Anastas -- Stranded / Jill Talbot -- Things gone the way of time / Rebecca McClanahan -- 4 for Easter / Jeff Oaks -- Chess piece / Bill Capossere -- Red / Jericho Parms -- Umbrellas / Nancy Geyer -- Star light, star bright / Jane Brox -- Wild life / Cheryl Merrill -- American animal / Liz Stephens -- What the osprey knows / Pam Houston -- Clotheslines / M.J. Iuppa -- Foul ball / Greg Glazner -- Post-game / Jonathan Wilson -- The fan / Eduardo Galeano -- Joltin' Joe has left and gone away / Tod Goldberg -- The insomniac manifesto / Bernard Cooper -- Viennese pathology museum / Amy Gerstler -- Ichthyosis / Jennifer Culkin -- Los Angelitos / Emily Rapp -- The summer after / Tracy Dougherty -- How to banish melancholy / Abigail Thomas -- Brooding / Michael Martone -- Fats / Hilton Als -- Hoffmanniana / Marjorie Sandor -- When you write about murder / Joe Mackall -- Traffic / Jim Krusoe -- Securing District Four / J. Malcolm Garcia -- Winter journal: the first three pages / Paul Auster -- If Mr. Clean had been my father / Dinty W. Moore -- The nun / Peggy Shumaker -- Swerve / Brenda Miller -- Between / Stuart Dybek -- A brief history of water / Lance Larsen -- Water rising / Leila Philip -- Crease / Barrie Jean Borich -- The wardrobe series / Kate Carroll de Gutes -- Mom x 3 / Joan Wickersham -- Gifts / Suzanne Berne -- Thanksgiving picnic / Naomi Shihab Nye -- the Blur family / Joe Bonomo -- Who / Judith Kitchen -- A thousand Mary Doyles / Sonja Livingston -- Swing / Josette Kubaszyk -- Hunger / Emily Holt -- A phone call with my father / Paul Lisicky -- Future imperfect / Dinah Lenney -- Grief / Julian Barnes -- The desire to write about The green line / Wayne Koestenbaum -- Motes in the light / Lawrence Weschler -- Reading / Patricia Hampl -- The revolution needs a song / Marvin Bell.

ISBN

• 9780393350999
• 0393350991

LCCN

• ^^2015024754
• 40025456986

OCLC

• 902661364
• SCSB-12780898

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library