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The shell game : writers play with borrowed forms / edited and with an introduction by Kim Adrian ; foreword by Brenda Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American essays--21st century.
- American essays.
- Creative nonfiction, American.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Creative nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 252 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "The Shell Game is an anthology of magical essays that borrow their structures from ordinary, everyday sources : a recipe, a crossword puzzle, a Craig's List ad. This volume contains a carefully chosen selection of beautifully written, thought-provoking hybrid essays tackling a broad range of subjects"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword : discovering the hermit crab essay / Brenda Miller
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780803296763
- 0803296762
- OCLC:
- 1033580434
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