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Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art
of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"-a rambling
through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of
fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that essays
are stuffy and antiquated, the truth is that the personal essay is
an ever-changing creative medium that provides an ideal vehicle for
satisfying the human urge to document truths as we experience them
and share them with others-to capture a bit of life on paper.
Crafting the Personal Essay is designed to help you explore the
flexibility and power of the personal essay in your own writing.
This hands-on, creativity-expanding guide will help you infuse your
nonfiction with honesty, personality, and energy. You'll discover:
An exploration of the basics of essay writing Ways to step back and
scrutinize your experiences in order to separate out what may be
fresh, powerful, surprising or fascinating to a reader How to move
past private "journaling" and write for an audience How to write
eight different types of essays including memoir, travel, humor,
and nature essays among others Instruction for revision and
strategies for getting published Brimming with helpful examples,
exercises, and sample essays, this indispensable guide will help
your personal essays transcend the merely private to become
powerfully universal.
2019 Foreword INDIES Award, Gold for Anthologies "Medicine still
contains an oral tradition, passed down in stories: the stories
patients tell us, the ones we tell them, and the ones we tell
ourselves," writes contributor Madaline Harrison. Bodies of Truth
continues this tradition through a variety of narrative approaches
by writers representing all facets of health care. And, since all
of us have been or will be touched by illness or disability-our own
or that of a loved one-at some point in our lives, any reader of
this anthology can relate to the challenges, frustrations, and
pain-both physical and emotional-that the contributors have
experienced. Bodies of Truth offers perspectives on a wide array of
issues, from food allergies, cancer, and neurology to mental
health, autoimmune disorders, and therapeutic music. These
experiences are recounted by patients, nurses, doctors, parents,
children, caregivers, and others who attempt to articulate the
intangible human and emotional factors that surround life when it
intersects with the medical field.
Dante published his ambitious and unusual poem, Divine Comedy, more
than seven hundred years ago. In the ensuing centuries countless
retellings, innumerable adaptations, tens of thousands of fiery
sermons from Catholic bishops and Baptist preachers, all those New
Yorker cartoons, and masterpieces of European art have afforded
Dante's fictional apparition of hell unending attention and
credibility. Dinty W. Moore did not buy in. Moore started
questioning religion at a young age, quizzing the nuns in his
Catholic school, and has been questioning it ever since. Yet after
years of Catholic school, religious guilt, and persistent cultural
conditioning, Moore still can't shake the feelings of inadequacy,
and asks: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not
hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in
believing a myth that merely makes us miserable? In To Hell with
It, Moore reflects on and pokes fun at the over-seriousness of
religion in various texts, combining narratives of his everyday
life, reflections on his childhood, and religion's influence on
contemporary culture and society.
From Dinty W. Moore, founding editor of the popular journal Brevity
and prolific and pioneering author of several books of creative
nonfiction, including Between Panic and Desire, Dear Mister Essay
Writer Guy, and Crafting the Personal Essay, and Tom Hazuka, editor
of the anthology Flash Fiction Funny, comes a new book that will
make you laugh out loud in 750 words or less! Flash Nonfiction
Funny explores the exploding form of very short creative writing
and offers an accessible anthology that’s perfect for individual
entertainment or in a classroom setting. Teachers are increasingly
embracing the very short form because it lets them use brief pieces
to illustrate various styles and structures. The anthology includes
work from both new and established writers from all over the world.
It’s like they always say: It’s funny because it’s true!
"Insouciant" and "irreverent" are the sort of words that come up in
reviews of Dinty W. Moore's books-and, invariably, "hilarious."
Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania,
finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. A book that
could be named after one of its chapters, "A Post-Nixon,
Post-panic, Post-modern, Post-mortem," this collection is an
unconventional memoir of one man and his culture, which also
happens to be our own. Blending narrative and quizzes, memory and
numerology, and imagined interviews and conversations with dead
presidents on TV, the book dizzily documents the disorienting
experience of growing up in a postmodern world. Here we see how the
major events in the author's early life-the Kennedy assassination,
Nixon's resignation, watching Father Knows Best, and dropping acid
atop the World Trade Center, to name a few-shaped the way he sees
events both global and personal today. More to the point, we see
how these events shaped, and possibly even distorted, today's world
for all of us who spent our formative years in the '50s, '60s, and
'70s. A curious meditation on family and bereavement, longing and
fear, self-loathing and desire, Between Panic and Desire unfolds in
kaleidoscopic forms-a coroner's report, a TV movie script, a Zen
koan-aptly reflecting the emergence of a fractured virtual America.
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