Short Takes Brief Encounters With Contemporary Nonfiction

Author : Judith Kitchen
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780393326000

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Short Takes by Judith Kitchen Pdf

Invigorating creative nonfiction—short, but never slight—gathered by the co-editor of In Short and In Brief. In the years since the perennially popular In Short and In Brief were published, readers have come to delight in the deft focus of the succinct piece we now call The Short. Extending this trend, Short Takes presents over seventy-five writers whose range and style demonstrate the myriad ways we humans have of telling our truths. Themes develop and speak to or collide with one another: musings about parents, childhood, sports, weather, war, solitude, nature, loss—and, of course, love. The stellar roster of contributors includes well-known writers—Verlyn Klinkenborg, Jo Ann Beard, David Sedaris, Dorothy Allison, Salman Rushdie, and Terry Tempest Williams—along with Michael Perry, Mark Spragg, Jane Brox, and others whose literary stars are clearly rising. Each short—whether a few paragraphs or reaching 2,000 words, and reflecting almost every way nonfiction can be written—invites us to experience the power of the small to move, persuade, and change us.

Author : Judith Kitchen,Dinah Lenney
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780393351002

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Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction by Judith Kitchen,Dinah Lenney Pdf

The best of short literary memoirs, essays, and reflections, many of which were written expressly for this collection. Also available The late Judith Kitchen, editor of the perennially popular anthologies Short Takes, In Short, and In Brief, was greatly influential in recognizing and establishing flash creative nonfiction as a form in its own right. In Brief Encounters, she and writer/editor/actor Dinah Lenney expand this vibrant field with nearly eighty new selections: shorts—as these sharply focused pieces have come to be known— representing an impressive range of voices, perspectives, sensibilities, and forms. Brief Encounters features the work of the emerging and the established—including Stuart Dybek, Roxanne Gay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Jamison, and Julian Barnes—arranged by theme to explore the human condition in ways intimate, idiosyncratic, funny, sad, provocative, lyrical, unflinching. From the rant to the rave, the meditation to the polemic, the confession to the valediction, this collection of shorts—this celebration of true and vivid prose—will enlarge your world.

Author : Sherry Ellis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781101162750

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Now Write! Nonfiction by Sherry Ellis Pdf

An essential handbook for nonfiction writers, featuring the trusted personal writing exercises of today's masters of creative non-fiction, including Gay Talese, Reza Aslan, John Matteson, Tilar Mazzeo, and many more! Beginners and seasoned writers alike will relish the opportunity to use the top-notch writing exercises collected in Now Write! Nonfiction culled from the personal stashes of bestselling and critically-acclaimed nonfiction authors like legendary essayist Gay Talese (Thy Neighbor's Wife), New York Times-bestselling authors Ishmael Beah (A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier) Reza Aslan (No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam), and Tilar Mazzeo (The Widow Clicquot), 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winner John Matteson (Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father), creative nonfiction icon Lee Gutkind (Creative Nonfiction magazine), and many other top memoirists, journalists, and teachers of creative nonfiction, these exercises offer fresh ideas for every facet of creative nonfiction writing, from pushing through writers block to organizing a story, capturing character to fine-tuning dialogue, injecting new life into a finished piece to starting a new work from scratch. Now Write! Nonfiction will take you out into the field with creative nonfiction's master practitioners: *Peek inside Gay Talese's mind, as he shares the "writer's road map" he used to organize information for his classic book Thy Neighbor's Wife and his seminal essay "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold." *Learn from Reza Aslan why what you remember isn't as important as why you remember it the way you do *Explore the importance of cultural nuance in language with Ishmael Beah *Discover Lee Gutkind's simple trick, performed with a highlighter, that can help any writer identify whether their piece is truly showing action, or just telling An essential resource that will help writers of any level to hone their craft and get writing, Now WRite! Nonfiction offers over 80 quick, simple excersises trusted by top nonfiction writers to get their pen moving!

Author : Vittorio Mosca
Publisher : Grattini
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Grattini by Vittorio Mosca Pdf

The human body is a network of nerves and pressure points. In many cultures it is well known that manipulating these pressure points can bring stress relief, relaxation and, as we shall see, delight. As a teenager, Vittorio Mosca discovered that using the fingernails to lightly scratch various parts of the body was an extremely effective method for such massage. Since this discovery of what he calls 'grattini', he has applied this method throughout his life and used it as a means of enhancing loving relationships. In this personal account, grattini is discussed in detail, including a tracing of its historical roots and three short stories demonstrating how grattini can be used. Thanks to grattini, happiness is literally to hand!

Author : Dan Riskin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781476707563

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Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You by Dan Riskin Pdf

This “fact-filled and amusing trek through nature’s dark side” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the fascinating, weird, and often perverted ways that Mother Nature fends only for herself. It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin (host of the Animal Planet’s TV show Monsters Inside Me) explains, it’s also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our tour guide through the natural world at its most gloriously ruthless. Using the seven deadly sins as a road map, Riskin offers dozens of jaw-dropping examples that illuminate how brutal nature can truly be. From slothful worms that hide in your body for up to thirty years to wrathful snails with poisonous harpoons that can kill you in less than five minutes to lustful ducks that have orgasms faster than you can blink, these fascinating accounts reveal the candid truth about “gentle” Mother Nature’s true colors. Riskin’s passion for the strange and his enthusiastic expertise bring Earth’s most fascinating fauna and flora into vivid focus. Through his adventures—which include sliding on his back through a thick soup of bat guano just to get face-to-face with a vampire bat, befriending a parasitic maggot that has taken root in his head, and coming to grips with having offspring of his own—Riskin makes unexpected discoveries not just about the world all around us but also about the ways this brutal world has shaped us as humans and what our responsibilities are to this terrible, wonderful planet we call home.

Author : Kayla Krantz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1950530132

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Flirting with Death by Kayla Krantz Pdf

Enter if you dare...A woman who stays alive by killing others.Truth or Dare on the Dark Web.Mystery boxes filled with malevolent spirits.A vampire who hunts to keep his human sweetheart healthy.Monsters lurking in every shadow.And featured story, Flirting with Death. An unlikely partnership between a serial killer and would-be victim turned accomplice.These are stories designed to focus on the darker side of human nature. **Trigger Warning: Not for the faint of heart. This collection contains stories that deal with difficult subject matter such as murder and suicide.**

Author : Judith Kitchen,Mary Paumier Jones
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0393314928

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In Short by Judith Kitchen,Mary Paumier Jones Pdf

A collection of brief essays offers reflections on hummingbirds, ice cream, a cemetery, nostalgia, and sighing

Author : Kitty Drake,Ned Pratt
Publisher : St. John's, Nfld. : Breakwater
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Cookery Newfoundland
ISBN : 1550810944

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Rabbit Ravioli by Kitty Drake,Ned Pratt Pdf

Author : Ben Fountain
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061847622

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Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain Pdf

Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award * A National Bestseller “An exceptional story collection.” —New York Times Book Review The well-intentioned protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevera—including a disillusioned NGO worker, the wife of a special operations officer, and an obssessed ornithologist—are caught, to both disastrous and hilarious effect, in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. With masterful pacing and a robust sense of the absurd, each story is a self-contained adventure, steeped in the heady mix of tragedy and danger, excitement and hope, that characterizes countries in transition. An intelligent and keenly observed collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevera marks the arrival of a striking and resonant new voice that speaks adeptly to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar, and the inescapably human.

Author : Camille Leon
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781982259303

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Fresh Starts by Camille Leon Pdf

Evolution is uncomfortable. Real change is messy. Yet whenever we are actively engaged in transforming our lives, our roots and connections will grow stronger and ultimately help us attain a more fulfilling existence. In a true story of transformation from darkness to light, holistic entrepreneur Camille Leon invites anyone seeking a better life and holistic professionals to take a journey within to begin the process of positive change. While intertwining her personal story and lessons learned with introspective questions and reflective exercises, Leon leads others through a roadmap to better understanding themselves, their desires, and their ideal life. Through her guidance, others will learn the value of exploring their options, doing new things, shunning perfectionism, taking leaps of faith, managing time better, and identifying role models. Fresh Starts is a holistic guide for anyone interested in setting out on an adventurous quest to transform their life through reflections, practical tools, and spiritual wisdom.

Author : Mike Duncan,Star Medzerian Vanguri
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781602354258

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The Centrality of Style by Mike Duncan,Star Medzerian Vanguri Pdf

In The Centrality of Style, editors Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri argue that style is a central concern of composition studies even as they demonstrate that some of the most compelling work in the area has emerged from the margins of the field.

Author : Lori Copeland
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781418512989

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Stranded in Paradise by Lori Copeland Pdf

A funny-but-touching tale about everything that can go wrong...and what makes it all right! Tess Nelson is poised to take a well-deserved step up the corporate ladder when it's yanked out from under her. With no job and nothing to fill her days--just a nonrefundable ticket for a trip to Hawaii--Tess decides a tropical vacation is just what she needs. But Tess's journey to paradise is a disaster from the beginning. A sprained ankle at the airport is just the beginning. Then there's the lost contact lens and the lost luggage, the lightning storm at a luau, and the hotel fire. Not to mention the approaching hurricane. And the attractive, annoying young man who keeps crossing her path--and really shaking her up. All Tess wants to do is get her life back under control. But God, it seems, has something else in mind--like opening her heart to everything her life could be.

Author : Thomas J. Thorson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1941478557

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Serendipity by Thomas J. Thorson Pdf

The world as we know it... would be radically different were it not for the role that accidents, chance, and pure luck have played throughout history. Each chapter of Serendipity sets a pivotal event in its historical context and raises the question of how chance may have changed our world on both a global and personal level in this fascinating mix of significant events and pop culture.

Author : Rachel Vasquez-Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1432780549

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Reina the Cat by Rachel Vasquez-Price Pdf

Reina the Cat is a story that is inspired by actual events that took place. First, Reina who had been adopted by Rachel and Steven is sadden by the news that Zippy, her friend who was also adopted at the same time, is found dead in the patio. Next, she finds out that Rachel is told by her allergist that she is highly allergic to cats. Finally, she is left feeling abandon when one day Rachel suddenly comes down with a paralysing illness and is no longer able to care for her. This story takes you through an imaginative course of events that the author felt Reina must have endured during this time. At the end Reina is able to solve her loneliness.

Author : Graeme Harper
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781623566432

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Creative Writing Guidebook by Graeme Harper Pdf

"Graeme Harper is quite possibly the best person in the country to edit this book" -Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University College, UK The Creative Writing Guidebook is the key text for learning creative writing. Packed full of useful advice, exercises and readings, it sets out an informative and inspiring introduction to writing creatively. Taking a practical, workshop approach to creative writing, this comprehensive guidebook includes: introductions to genres of writing, including the novel, poetry, screenwriting, new media and non-fiction; workshop exercises suitable for each genre; a wide-range of examples and suggestions for further reading and discussions of cross-genre issues such as point of view, character, setting and voice. Written by internationally renowned experts, this is the definitive textbook on creative writing for students. Contributors include: Catherine Dent, Ken Dancyge, Adrianne Finlay, Graeme Harper, Gill James, Jeri Kroll, Oliver Mayer, Graham Mort, William S. Penn, Hazel Smith, and Silas Zobal