Nicole Walker

Egg (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

This book is about a strange object-strange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walker's Egg relishes in sharp juxtapositions of seemingly fanciful or repellent topics, so that reproductive science and gustatory habits are considered alongside one another, and personal narrative and broad swaths of natural history jostle, like yolk and albumen. Mapping curious eggs across times, scales, and spaces, Egg draws together surprising perspectives on this common object-egg as food, as art object, as metaphor and feminist symbol, as cultural icon.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501322860
• Artikelnr.: 48420920

Autorenporträt

Nicole Walker is the author of Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster (2021) Sustainability: A Love Story (2018) and the collaborative collection The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet. (2019). She has previously published the nonfiction collections Where the Tiny Things Are (2017), Egg (2017), Micrograms (2016), Quench Your Thirst with Salt (2013), and a book of poems, This Noisy Egg (2010). She edited for Bloomsbury the essay collections Science of Story (2019) with Sean Prentiss and Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction (2013) with Margot Singer. She is the co-president of NonfictioNOW and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award and a noted author in Best American Essays. Her work has been most recently published in the New York Times, Longreads, and Ploughshares, among other places. She teaches at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ and serves as the Crux Series Editor for University of Georgia Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Dear Egg Why We Break the Things We Love the Most Rotten Eggs The Egg Came First Experiment with Eggs by Making a Hollandaise in the Time of Global Warming How to Cook a Planet Spoons The Glue That Holds Us Together All the Eggs in Israel All the Eggs in Ukraine All the Eggs in Korea All the Eggs in China Eggs in Utah Mohawk So Many Eggs, One Small Basket Which Came First? Chicken Porn Can Help You Make Up Your Mind About Eggs Breaking a Few Eggs Blue Planet, Blue Omelet Humpty Dumpty, Revised Do Eggs Bring Skunks? Would You Eat a Red Speckled Egg? The Incredible, Edible Egg What Is a Cloaca? A Million Year Old Egg A Lot of Pressure on One Egg Sidewalk Cooking Eggs A Science Fair Every Year The Sex Lives of Fish The Present Was an Egg Laid by the Past That Had the Future Inside Its Shell-Zora Neale Hurston Recipe for an Already-Cracked Egg

Rezensionen

Walker teaches creative writing at a Northern Arizona University, and I imagine she is very good at it. Her interest in other people and their lives holds the book together. Her specific remit, the egg, provides her with a good deal of scope and she enthusiastically takes her readers along for the ride . Much within the lovely covers is delightful. FoodAnthropology