Selected misdemeanors : essays at the mercy of the reader / Sue William Silverman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silverman, Sue William, Author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xiii, 182 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2025]

Summary:

"The essays in "Selected Misdemeanors" range from short to flash to micro, focusing on pivotal, often fleeting moments that define the course of a life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Author's Note

Part 1. Strange Entanglements

At the Apollo Theatre

Coming Attractions

Child Care

On Understanding Time for the First Time

Miss Demeanor Considers the Time When She Was Forced to Hold the Crayon . . .

Scratching the Surface

Time Travel for Beginners

Postcard: The Berkshires

A Treatise on Dark Matter(s)

Learning the Antimatter of What Matters

Retainer

Postcard: Monhegan Island, Maine

Harbor Lights

Miss Demeanor Considers the Time in Puerto Rico . . .

7-Up as a Cure for Irony

The Silence Detector

My Russian Heritage

Drinks for All Occasions

Snow on Cherries

Love Deferment

Miss Demeanor Considers the First of Many Jobs . . .

Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Lived in a Room . . .

Respect, Almost

Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Posed as an Israeli . . .

Manilow Fidelity

Carry On

Part 2. How To and How Not

Library with Hyacinth, Girl, and Guns

How To

How to Find a Snow Leopard in Georgia

Negative Capabilities

Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Hid . . .

Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Was Married . . .

Mug Shots with Fellow Fugitives

The Poetic Sentence

Missing the Clues

On Liminality

Exchange Rates

Remembrance of Things Past

The Long Road Out of Eden

Postcard: Greetings from Atlantic City!

The Undertaking

Reflections on Blue Velvet

The Family Chiroptera

The Soft Beauty of an Ordinary Life

Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Stood under the Boardwalk . . .

Trashy

Miss Demeanor Considers the Time between Hippiedom and Adulthood . . .

Degas Paints the Chippendales and Me

Part 3. Grieflets

Too

Grieflets

Psyche Ward, Drought

Expiration Date

Against Ruin

Emerald Isle

Al Di Là

Into the Wild of the Calm

The Lost Art of the Near Tilt

The Origin of Her Superpowers

Miss Demeanor Must Consider, Whether She Wants to or Not . . .

Miss Demeanor Must Also Consider the Time Her Father . . .

Tinea Capitis

A Grand Unified Theory of Disease

Organ Music

Dyscalculia

Postcard: The Big Apple!

Postcard: New York City

Xeroxing Christie

Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Got Her First Author Photo . . .

Miss Demeanor Considers Her Desk (Messy Like Her Life) . . .

The Memory Box

Seeking Paradise on the Road to Nowhere

Acknowledgments .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781496244222

1496244222

OCLC:

1464949344