About this title: Brief pieces of high literary quality and personal content are collected in this volume of work by Tim O'Brien, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, Michael Ondaatje, Diane Ackerman, Andrei Codrescu, Albert Goldbarth, and other well-known and recently discovered writers.
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Edition: First edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Norton
Date Published: 1996
Description: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction. Fine and bright stiff wraps with strong square spine and crisp bright text throughout. A sharp copy all around. Writers include Michael Ondaatje, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, Tim O'Brien and many more. read more
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Description: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub Date: 7/1/1996 Binding: Paperback Pages: 334. read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780393314922ISBN:0393314928
Description: Fine. Soft Cover Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The first anthology to identify and celebrate a new nonfiction form: the Short. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 1996-07-01
ISBN-13:9780393314922ISBN:0393314928
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780393314922ISBN:0393314928
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780393314922ISBN:0393314928
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 1996-07-17
ISBN-13:9780393314922ISBN:0393314928
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780393314922ISBN:0393314928
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"How do I review a book I enjoyed so much that moments after reading through it once I immediately started back on some of the shorts I really enjoyed and found inspiration from?
what words can I choose to describe a book that proves to me that essays need not be the length of the average New Yorker article to be powerful?
The essays chosen and the order they were laid out (which the editors stress is not the way one needs to read them in) left me with a braid of stories, of thoughts, of words which left me yearning for more.
I hope one day to write and pull my writings together with half the skill displayed within these soft covers.
Please go find this book and read it. I suggest purchasing it (or having a wonderful friend gift it to you) as you might not want to return it to the library."
"The premise behind this collection is that, for whatever reason, a collective effort at compression in nonfiction has suddenly occurred. The editors note that in some ways this is nothing new (E.B. White, among others, penned short essays decades ago), but they are convinced that a cultural trend is developing, one spurred, at least in part, by the frenetic advances of our technological age and their effect on our attention spans. This trend, they claim, results in writers producing various snippets of prose: lyric pieces, sentient scenes, musings, etc. They dub this nonfiction form the "short" and define it as self-contained pieces under 2000 words. The editors hail it as a form (the short) within a form (creative nonfiction), and marvel at the innovation and experimentation on the part of writers, both new and established, within this new mode. I don't know about any of that, but the fact remains that this book does indeed contain pieces under 2000 words by writers both famous and obscure, and, apparently, they're keeping at it, as Judith Kitchen has edited at least one other collection of short prose since this volume appeared in 1996. Whatever the reasons behind this mass movement of abridgement, the end results are largely the same as with any other type of writing: some of it is good and some of it is bad, and these judgments are largely a subjective affair. With respect to the pieces contained herein, I found some of them to be good and some of them to be bad. By good, I mean pleasurable, innovative, thought-provoking, etc. By bad, I mean self-indulgent, inconsequential, overblown (ironic, in that the overblowing was accomplished in less than 2000 words), or anything written by Terry Tempest Williams. This impulse to shrink may be driven by as grand a notion as "cultural trending," or it may merely be a mass effort to increase chances for publication, as journals and magazines seem more apt to publish shorter pieces these days (which, I suppose, could be considered a trend, cultural or otherwise). In any event, the result is writing produced by authors, some of which is good and some of which is bad."
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