Patrick Madden

Disparates (eBook, ePUB)

Essays

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In English disparate means "different" or "miscellaneous"-apt descriptors of these essays by Patrick Madden. In Spanish, however, disparate means "nonsense," "folly," or "absurdity,"-words appropriate to Madden's goal of undercutting any notion that essays must be serious business. Thus, in this collection, the essays are frivolous and lively, aiming to make readers laugh while they think about such abstract subjects as happiness and memory and unpredictability. In this vein, Madden takes sidelong swipes at weighty topics via form, with wildly meandering essays, abandoned essays in honor of the long tradition of essayists disparaging their own efforts, and guerrilla essays-which slip in quietly under the guise of a borrowed form, abruptly attack, and promptly escape, leaving laughter and contemplation in their wake. Madden also incorporates cameos from guest essayists, including Mary Cappello, Matthew Gavin Frank, David Lazar, Michael Martone, Jericho Parms, and Wendy S. Walters, much like a musician features other performers.Disparates reflects the current zeitgeist by taking on important issues with a touch of cleverness, a dash of humor, and a little help from one's friends. Read Chapter 1.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496221865
• Artikelnr.: 60871847

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

disparate/    
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)