Patrick Madden

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Essays

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Produktbeschreibung

Patrick Madden’s unconventional essays aim to make readers laugh while considering such abstract subjects as happiness and memory, reflecting the current zeitgeist with a touch of cleverness, a dash of humor, and a little help from his friends.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jewish Publication Society
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9781496202444
• ISBN-10: 1496202449
• Artikelnr.: 58020356

Autorenporträt

Patrick Madden is a professor at Brigham Young University. He is the author of the award-winning Sublime Physick: Essays (Nebraska, 2016) and Quotidiana: Essays (Nebraska, 2010), and coeditor, with David Lazar, of After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays. His essays have appeared in a variety of periodicals as well as in The Best Creative Nonfiction and The Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. Visit Madden’s website at quotidiana.org.  

Inhaltsangabe

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Writer Michael Martone’s Leftover Water: Imbibe literary genius (dozens of
authors) in one swig!    
Nostalgia (feat. Lawrence Sutin)    
Insomnia (feat. Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas)    
Unpredictable Essays    
Laughter (feat. Jericho Parms)    
Order    
Memorizing the Lyrics    
Repast    
Happiness (feat. Amy Leach)     
Memory    
Alfonsina y el Mar    
Mea Culpa    
Expectations (feat. Desirae Matherly)     
Freewill (feat. Joe Oestreich)     
In Step with . . . Montaigne (feat. David Lazar)     
Timing    
Inertia    
Thumbs (feat. Elena Passarello & Wendy S. Walters)    
Smells (feat. Stephen Haynie)    
The Proverbial __________    
Poetry    
Old Time Rock and Roll (feat. Michael Martone)    
The Arrogance of Style    
Distance (feat. Joni Tevis)    
Beat on the Brat    
Against the Wind    
Pangram Haiku 
Plums (feat. Matthew Gavin Frank)     
Solstice    
Listening (feat. Mary Cappello)