In Short in Short in Short: a Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction a Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction a Collection of Brief Creative Non

Brief Description: Welcome to the first anthology to identify and celebrate a new nonfiction form: the Short!Review Quotes: The selection of authors is impressive, and the work consistently engaging. I'm already planning classes around In Short. --Bernard CooperReview Quotes: To read ?In Short? is to experience, in essay after essay, the disproportionate power of the small to move, persuade, and change us. --Bernard CooperReview Quotes: To read In Short is to experience, in essay after essay, the disproportionate power of the small to move, persuade, and change us. --Bernard CooperMarc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-327) and index. Review Quotes: To read ?In Short? is to experience, in essay after essay, the disproportionate power of the small to move, persuade, and change us. --Bernard Cooper"Publisher Marketing: Something is going on out there. Almost simultaneously, many of our finest writers are experimenting with a new nonfiction form: brief pieces that are literary and personal rather than informational, complete in themselves, and short very short. Although the form has not had a name until now, the writers who are attracted to it include the known Tim O'Brien, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, Michael Ondaatje as well as just-discovered voices in the field of creative nonfiction, a genre that is transforming the essay. Delights and surprises await the reader in this rich gathering of Shorts. From Diane Ackerman's fascination with hummingbirds, to Andrei Codrescu's idiosyncratic view of nostalgia, to Albert Goldbarth's free-wheeling riff on the universe, each Short ranging from several paragraphs to 2,000 words becomes a sharply focused lens on an outer world or an inner sensibility. In Short, reflecting almost every way in which nonfiction can be written, is for all readers (and writers) who thrive on imaginative play and aesthetic satisfaction. Pick up this book; open it up. See if you can resist it." Review Citations:

Library Journal 07/01/1996 pg. 116 (EAN 9780393314922, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1996 pg. 84 (EAN 9780393314922, Paperback)

Publishers Weekly 05/27/1996 pg. 73 (EAN 9780393314922, Paperback)

Library Journal 07/01/1996 pg. 116 (EAN 9780393039603, Hardcover)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1996 pg. 84 (EAN 9780393039603, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 05/27/1996 pg. 73 (EAN 9780393039603, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Kitchen, Judith Judith Kitchen (1941-2014), poet, novelist, and essayist, lived in Port Townsend, Washington, where she and her husband established a low-residency writing program. Contributor Bio:  Jones, Mary Paumier Mary Paumier Jones lives in Rochester. Jones, who teaches creative nonfiction, has a degree in library science.