Machine generated contents note: The Structure of Trouble / Marcia Aldrich -- On "The Structure of Trouble": Fitting Function to Form / Marcia Aldrich -- The Eighteenth Week / Monica Berlin -- On "The Eighteenth Week": On Point of View / Monica Berlin -- Time and Distance Overcome / Eula Biss -- On "Time and Distance Overcome": The Rewards of Research / Eula Biss -- An Essay and a Story about Motley Crue / Ryan Boudinot -- On "An Essay and a Story about Motley Crue": Knowing One's Audience and Making Your Dreams Come True / Ryan Boudinot -- Dazzle / Ashley Butler -- On "Dazzle": The Fluidity of Boundaries / Ashley Butler -- Thirty Minutes to the End: An Essay to My Aunt Judy on the Occasion of the May 4, 2007, Tornado / Steven Church -- On "Thirty Minutes to the End: An Essay to My Aunt Judy on the Occasion of the May 4, 2007, Tornado": Rethinking Genre / Steven Church -- Bait / Stuart Dybek -- On "Bait": The Hybridity of Form / Stuart Dybek -- Salvos into the World of Hummers / Beth Ann Fennelly -- On "Salvos into the World of Hummers": The Convergence of Subject and Style / Beth Ann Fennelly -- Flagpole Wedding, Coshocton, Ohio, 1946: An Essay on Process / Robin Hemley -- On "Flagpole Wedding, Coshocton, Ohio, 1946: An Essay on Process": Transitioning from Notes to Novel / Robin Hemley -- Whistling in the Dark / Naomi Kimbell -- On "Whistling in the Dark": When Telling Lies Reveals Truth / Naomi Kimbell -- 71 Fragments for a Chronology of Possibility / Kim Dana Kupperman -- On "71 Fragments for a Chronology of Possibility": An Eight-Fragment, Five-Paragraph Essay / Kim Dana Kupperman -- Headaches / Paul Maliszewski -- On "Headaches": Articulating the Inexplicable / Paul Maliszewski -- Asymmetry / Michael Martone -- On "Asymmetry": The Typewriter Is Not a Typewriter / Michael Martone -- Outline toward a Theory of the Mine versus the Mind and the Harvard Outline / Ander Monson -- Outline toward a Reflection on the Outline and the Splitting of the Atom, I Mean the Colorado River, I Mean Our Collective Attentions, or Maybe I Mean the Brain, Which Is Mostly Forks, You Know / Ander Monson -- Four Essential Tips for Telling the Truth in Personal Memoir and Securing That Blockbuster Book Deal / Dinty W. Moore -- On "Four Essential Tips for Telling the Truth ... ": Implementing Exaggeration and Humor / Dinty W. Moore -- A Visit to the Doctor / Susan Neville -- On "A Visit to the Doctor": The Omission of I / Susan Neville -- Contra / Brian Oliu -- On "Contra": Nostalgia and the Shared Experience / Brian Oliu -- Squirrel: An Ars Poetica / Lia Purpura -- On "Squirrel: An Ars Poetica": Starting in One Place and Ending in Another / Lia Purpura -- Why I Hope My Soap Opera Will Outlive Me and Other Confessions about a Dying Art / Wendy Rawlings -- On "Why I Hope My Soap Opera Will Outlive Me and Other Confessions about a Dying Art": Breaking the Fourth Wall / Wendy Rawlings -- Monster / Ryan Van Meter -- On "Monster": The Immersion Effect / Ryan Van Meter.
Summary:
This collection features twenty genre-bending essays from today's most renowned teachers and writers. "Contemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts and lies. Just how much truth is in nonfiction? How much is a lie? Blurring the Boundaries sets out to answer such questions while simultaneously exploring the limits of the form. This collection features twenty genre-bending essays from today's most renowned teachers and writers--including original work from Michael Martone, Marcia Aldrich, Dinty W. Moore, Lia Purpura, and Robin Hemley, among others. These essays experiment with structure, style, and subject matter, and each is accompanied by the writer's personal reflection on the work itself, illuminating his or her struggles along the way. As these innovative writers stretch the limits of genre, they take us with them, offering readers a front-row seat to an ever-evolving form. Readers also receive a practical approach to craft thanks to the unique writing exercises provided by the writers themselves. Part groundbreaking nonfiction collection, part writing reference, Blurring the Boundaries serves as the ideal book for literary lovers and practitioners of the craft." -- Publisher's description.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.