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 -- 22 -- On the EEO genre sheet -- The poet's education -- Writing betwixt-and-between -- On beginnings and endings.
Summary:
"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."--Back cover.
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