How we speak to one another
Subtitle: an Essay Daily reader
By: edited by Ander Monson & Craig Reinbold
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781566894579
Subjects: American essays
Other titles: Essay daily (Blog)
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297).
Table of contents: title: Here's how you use the lion mints : an introduction to How We Speak to One Another  -- Ander Monson; title: Invisible engineering : the fine art of revising "The fine art of sighing"  -- Marcia Aldrich; title: On Christ Marker's Sans Soleil  -- Kristen Radtke; title: Majestic ruins : on the work of James Agee  -- Robin Helmley; title: On essays, assays, and Yiyun Li's "Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life"  -- V.V. Ganeshananthan; title: The assault on prose : John Crowe Ransom, new criticism, and the status of the essay  -- Robert Atwan; title: On Joan Didion, Repo Man, and a '76 Malibu  -- Matt Dube; title: On Collage, Chris Kraus, and misremembered Didion  -- Aisha Sabatini Sloan; title: Looking for Samuel Delany  -- T Clutch Fleischmann; title: Observations about writing memoir in my twenties, thirties, and forties  -- Rigoberto González; title: On the mysterious Leslie Ryan and the structure of a trauma narrative  -- Katherine E. Standefer; title: On Arianne Zwartje's "This suturing of wounds or words" and Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel's "Cannulated screw"  -- Julie Lauterbach-Colby; title: Living within the ellipses : on Ilan Stavan's On Borrowed Words : a Memoir of Language  -- César Díaz; title: On Joan Didion, on the morning after my twenties  -- Emily Deprang; title: On writing young  -- Lucas Mann; title: On losing yourself  -- Danica Novgorogoff; title: Is the essay at the end of time?  -- Ken Chen; title: Email  -- from Bonnie J. Rough; title: On the essential art of failing  -- Peter Grandbois; title: Leaping  -- Albert Goldbarth; title: Julian Barnes brings light to a thanatophobe's conundrum  -- Alison Hawthorne Deming; title: On Tom Junod's "The falling man"  -- Steven Church; title: We sought but couldn't find : coming up empty in David Shields's "Death is the mother of beauty"  -- Bethany Maile; title: Movie quotes as misery : on Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely  -- David Legault; title: A paperback cabinet of wonder : unlocking the long lyric essay  -- Joni Tevis; title: The essays of Ansel Adams : an allegory  -- John D'Agata; title: 10 thoughts on Elision  -- Meehan Crist; title: On Donald Hall's "Out the window"  -- Thomas Mira y Lopez; title: On the virtues of drowning : Lidia Yuknavitch's the Chronology of Water  -- Danielle Cadena Deulen; title: On Hoagland, animal obsession, and the courage of simile  -- John T. Price; title: On David Quammen and writing trout  -- Maya L. Kapoor; title: On long winters, short essays, and a sky that stretches forever  -- Chelsea Biondolillo; title: On Wendell Berry and why I'm not going to buy a smartphone  -- Megan Kimble; title: It is a shaggy world, studded with gardens  -- Brian Doyle; title: Nonfiction like a brick  -- Nicole Walker; title: On the fugue, Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?, DFW, and the resistance to the one thing  -- Paul Lisicky; title: On The Squared Circle : Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling by David Shoemaker  -- Brian Oliu; title: On Rick Reilly's "Need a fourth?" from Sports Illustrated, March 31, 1997  -- Pam Houston; title: On Jim Bouton's Ball Four  -- Dave Mondy; title: On a little-known gem by Max Beerbohm  -- Phillip Lopate; title: On Eliot Weinberger's "Wrens"  -- Amy Benson; title: On Charles Lamb's "New Year's Eve"  -- Patrick Madden; title: On the Book of Days  -- Elena Passarello; title: On the false glint of fool's gold and cliché  -- Erin Zweiner; title: The present of our past: on Alexander Stille  -- Patricia Vigerman; title: A fat man story : on H.L. Mencken's "A neglected anniversary"  -- Ander Monson; title: On endings : all in all, it was a really weird summer -- Ryan van Meter.