Jenny Boully

Betwixt-and-Between (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on the Writing Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Powerful" essays exploring the experience of the writer-and the nature of experience itself (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). Shortlisted for the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Award in Nonfiction Jenny Boully's essays are ripe with romance and sensual pleasures, drawing connections between the digression, reflection, imagination, and experience that characterize falling in love as well as the life of a writer. Literary theory, philosophy, and linguistics rub up against memory, dreamscapes, and fancy-making the practice of writing a metaphor for the illusory nature of experience. Betwixt-and-Between is, in many ways, simply a book about how to live. "[Boully's] prose is reminiscent of Lydia Davis'-spare, elliptical, unexpected-and sometimes, in her rhythmic cadences, of Gertrude Stein's . . . Graceful meditations on love, loneliness, and the magic of words." -Kirkus Reviews "Jenny Boully is a deeply weird writer-in the best way." -Ander Monson

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Coffee House Press
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781566895187
• Artikelnr.: 51224624

Autorenporträt

Jenny Boully is the author of The Body: An Essay, The Book of Beginnings and Endings: Essays, not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them, and other books. Born in Thailand, she grew up in Texas and holds a Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She teaches creative writing and literature at Columbia College Chicago.