Love and ruin
Subtitle: tales of obsession, danger, and heartbreak from the Atavist magazine
By: edited by Evan Ratliff ; introduction by Susan Orlean
Edition: First ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780393352719
Subjects: American Essays; Essays
Other titles: Atavist.
Description: Since its founding in 2011, The Atavist has garnered eight National Magazine Award nominations and was the first all-digital publication to win in feature writing. This collection presents examples of a new kind of nonfiction storytelling as practiced by a young generation of longform experts.
Table of contents: title: Love and ruin  -- James Verini; title: 52 blue  -- Leslie Jamison; title: The fort of young saplings  -- Vanessa Veselka; title: American hippopotamus  -- Jon Mooallem; title: Mother, stranger  -- Cris Beam; title: When we are called to part  -- Brooke Jarvis; title: My mother's lover  -- David Dobbs; title: A thousand pounds of dynamite  -- Adam Higginbotham; title: The oilman's daughter  -- Evan Ratliff; title: The sinking of the Bounty -- Matthew Shaer.