I'll be your mirror : essays and aphorisms / David Lazar ; illustrated by Heather Frise.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lazar, David, 1957- author.

Contributor:

Frise, Heather, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American essays--21st century.

American essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Summary:

"A collection of personal essays, pieces exploring the essay form, and aphorisms, I'll Be Your Mirror explores memory, pain, historical essayists, contemporary creative nonfiction, all in the distinct voice of premier essayist David Lazar"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments <BR /> Brigadoon Bowling<BR /> Ann; Death and the Maiden <BR /> When I'm Awfully Low: On Singing <BR /> Lollipop Is Mine <BR /> Brushes with the Great and Not-So-Great <BR /> Brigadoon Bowling <BR /> Five Autobiographical Fragments, or She May Have Been a Witch <BR /> Pandora and the Naked Dead Woman <BR /> To the Reader, Sincerely<BR /> To the Reader, Sincerely <BR /> Being a Boy-Man <BR /> Hydra: I'll Be Your Mirror <BR /> A Conversation with Robert Burton, Author of Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), vox es, praeterea nihil <BR /> Meet Montaigne! (with Patrick Madden) <BR /> The Typologies of John Earle <BR /> Voluptuously, Expansively, Historically, Contradictorily: Essaying the Interview with David Lazar and Mary Cappello <BR /> Rock, Paper, Scissors, God: aphorismics <BR /> Rock, Paper, Scissors, God <BR /> Mothers, Etc. <BR /> Source Credits.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496205186

1496205189

9781496205209

1496205200

OCLC:

993622987