Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls ""hermit crab essays"". The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays that borrow their structures from ordinary, everyday sources: a recipe, a crossword puzzle, a Craig's List ad.
Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls ""hermit crab essays"". The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays that borrow their structures from ordinary, everyday sources: a recipe, a crossword puzzle, a Craig's List ad.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kim Adrian is a Boston-based creative writer and a visiting lecturer of nonfiction writing at Brown University. She is the author of Sock, part of the Object Lesson series, and the forthcoming memoir The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet (Nebraska, 2018). Adrian is the recipient of a Bread Loaf scholarship, a PEN/New England Discovery Award, and an artist’s grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Brenda Miller directs the MFA in Creative Writing and the MA in English Studies at Western Washington University. Cheyenne Nimes is a cross-genre writer currently working on poetry/nonfiction hybrids on the nature of evil and Jonestown. She won the Edwin Ford Piper Scholar Award and was a University of Iowa Art Museum resident writer.
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Contents Foreword: Discovering the Hermit Crab Essay Brenda Miller Introduction: A Natural History of the North American Hermit Crab Essay Kim Adrian Grand Theft Auto Joey Franklin Ok, Cupid Sarah McColl Rubik’s Cube, Six Twisted Paragraphs Kathryn A. Kopple Solving My Way to Grandma Laurie Easter Genome Tome Priscilla Long As Is Brian Oliu Falling in Love with a Glass House: Twenty-Four Views of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House Jennifer Metsker Son of Mr. Green Jeans: An Essay on Fatherhood, Alphabetically Arranged Dinty W. Moore Snakes & Ladders Anushka Jasraj Math 1619 Gwendolyn Wallace Stagecraft Mary Peelen We Regret to Inform You Brenda Miller The Six Answers on the Back of a Trivia Card Caitlin Horrocks Piecing the Quilt of Valor Judith Sornberger Self-Portrait as a 1970s Cineplex Movie Theatre (an Abecedarian) Steve Fellner The Forgetting Test Lee Upton #MISCARRIAGE.EXE Ingrid Jendrzejewski SECTION 404 Cheyenne Nimes The Body (an Excerpt) Jenny Boully Questionnaire for My Grandfather Kim Adrian The Petoskey Catechism, 1958 Elizabeth Kerlikowske What Signifies (Three Parables) David Shields The Marriage License Judy Bolton-Fasman The Heart as a Torn Muscle Randon Billings Noble The Spectrum (of Miracles and Mysteries) Steve Edwards “Easy as Pie,” That’s a Lie Amy Wallen Outline toward a Theory of the Mine versus the Mind and the Harvard Outline Ander Monson The Clockwise Detorsion of Snails: A Love Essay in Sectors Karen Hays Postscript: Forms on the Page Cheyenne Nimes Source Acknowledgments Contributors Contributor’s Note Michael Martone
Contents Foreword: Discovering the Hermit Crab Essay Brenda Miller Introduction: A Natural History of the North American Hermit Crab Essay Kim Adrian Grand Theft Auto Joey Franklin Ok, Cupid Sarah McColl Rubik’s Cube, Six Twisted Paragraphs Kathryn A. Kopple Solving My Way to Grandma Laurie Easter Genome Tome Priscilla Long As Is Brian Oliu Falling in Love with a Glass House: Twenty-Four Views of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House Jennifer Metsker Son of Mr. Green Jeans: An Essay on Fatherhood, Alphabetically Arranged Dinty W. Moore Snakes & Ladders Anushka Jasraj Math 1619 Gwendolyn Wallace Stagecraft Mary Peelen We Regret to Inform You Brenda Miller The Six Answers on the Back of a Trivia Card Caitlin Horrocks Piecing the Quilt of Valor Judith Sornberger Self-Portrait as a 1970s Cineplex Movie Theatre (an Abecedarian) Steve Fellner The Forgetting Test Lee Upton #MISCARRIAGE.EXE Ingrid Jendrzejewski SECTION 404 Cheyenne Nimes The Body (an Excerpt) Jenny Boully Questionnaire for My Grandfather Kim Adrian The Petoskey Catechism, 1958 Elizabeth Kerlikowske What Signifies (Three Parables) David Shields The Marriage License Judy Bolton-Fasman The Heart as a Torn Muscle Randon Billings Noble The Spectrum (of Miracles and Mysteries) Steve Edwards “Easy as Pie,” That’s a Lie Amy Wallen Outline toward a Theory of the Mine versus the Mind and the Harvard Outline Ander Monson The Clockwise Detorsion of Snails: A Love Essay in Sectors Karen Hays Postscript: Forms on the Page Cheyenne Nimes Source Acknowledgments Contributors Contributor’s Note Michael Martone
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