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Betwixt-and-between : essays on the writing life / Jenny Boully.

Boully, Jenny, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781566895101 : PAP
  • ISBN: 1566895103 : PAP
  • Physical Description: x, 132 pages cm
  • Publisher: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2018.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Preface -- The future imagined, the past imagined -- Forecast essay -- On writing and witchcraft -- Inner workings, in meadows -- Einstein on the beach/postmodernism/electronic beeps -- On the Voyager golden records -- The page as artifact -- Between Cassiopeia and Perseus -- Kafka's garden -- Black-and-white movies in which I do not find you -- Moveable types -- How to write on grand themes -- The art of fiction -- Fragments -- On the EEO genre sheet -- The poet's education -- Writing betwixt-and-between -- On beginnings and endings -- Acknowledgments.
Summary, etc.:
"Jenny Boully’s essays are ripe with romance and sensual pleasures, drawing connections between the digression, reflection, imagination, and experience that characterizes falling in love as well as the life of a writer. Literary theory, philosophy, and linguistics rub up against memory, dreamscapes, and fancy, making the practice of writing a metaphor for the illusory nature of experience. Betwixt and Between is, in many ways, simply a book about how to live."-- Amazon.com.
Subject: Authorship.

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Betwixt-And-Between : Essays on the Writing Life
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Betwixt-And-Between : Essays on the Writing Life


"Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch." --John D'Agata "Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without 'complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.' Jenny Boully has done it." --Mary Jo Bang "Jenny Boully is a deeply weird writer--in the best way." --Ander Monson Jenny Boully's essays are ripe with romance and sensual pleasures, drawing connections between the digression, reflection, imagination, and experience that characterizes falling in love as well as the life of a writer. Literary theory, philosophy, and linguistics rub up against memory, dreamscapes, and fancy, making the practice of writing a metaphor for the illusory nature of experience. Betwixt andBetween is, in many ways, simply a book about how to live. Jenny Boully is the author of The Body: An Essay, The Book of Beginnings and Endings: Essays, not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them, and other books. Born in Thailand, she grew up in Texas and holds a PhD in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She teaches creative writing and literature at Columbia College Chicago.

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