| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword / by Achy Obejas -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / by Jill Talbot -- Introduction / by Charles Blackstone -- Great Jews in sports / by Thomas Beller -- Remember / by Mary Clearman Blew -- 101 ways to cook hamburger / by Bernard Cooper -- How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie / by Junot Díaz -- Excerpt from notes from a Writer's book of cures and spells / by Marcia Douglas -- A primer for the punctuation of heart disease / by Jonathan Safran Foer -- Hitlertown / by Stefan Kiesbye -- Trickle-down timeline / by Cris Mazza -- Seven stories about being me / by Wendy McClure -- Tagore to the Max / by Peter Michelson -- Beyond the border of love / by Maryanne O'Hara -- Interrupted reading / by Lance Olsen -- From Combaria / by Ted Pelton -- Rhapsody in green / by Marjorie Sandor -- Our day with Jerry Springer / by Davis Schneiderman -- Lips / by Lynda Schor -- -- For the invisible, against thinking / by Ronald Sukenick -- Midrash [commentary] / by Julia Frey -- Pagan baby / by Zoe Trope -- -- Bloodlines / by Terry Tempest Williams -- Afterword : a conversation / by Beverly Donofrio and Kaylie Jones |
| Summary |
Annotation "We live in an Enquirer, reality television-addled world, a world in which most college students receive their news from the Daily Show and discourse via text message," assert Charles Blackstone and Jill Talbot. "Recently, two nonfiction writers have been criticized for falsifying memoirs. Oprah excoriated James Frey on her show; Nasdijj was impugned by Sherman Alexie in Time . Is our next trend in literature to lock down such boundaries among the literati? Or should we address the fictionalizing of nonfiction, the truth of fiction?" The Art of Friction surveys the borderlands where fiction and nonfiction intersect, commingle, and challenge genre lines. It anthologizes nineteen creative works by contemporary, award-winning writers including Junot Diacute;az, Jonathan Safran Foer, Thomas Beller, Bernard Cooper, Wendy McClure, and Terry Tempest Williams, who also provide companion pieces in which they comment on their work. These selections, which place short stories and personal essays (and hybrids of the two) side by side, allow readers to examine the similarities and differences between the genres, as well as explore the trends in genre overlap. Functioning as both a reader and a discussion of the craft of writing, The Art of Friction is a timely, essential book for all writers and readers who seek the truthfulness of lived experience through (non)fictions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature.
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American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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American literature
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Literary collections
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary collections
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blackstone, Charles, 1977-
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Talbot, Jill Lynn.
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| ISBN |
9780292794009 |
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0292794002 |
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