Next American Essay

Name: Next American Essay
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ISBN: 9781555973759

ISBN-10: 1555973752

ISBN-13: 9781555973759

Edition: 2003

Authors: John D'Agata

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In this singular collection, John D'Agata takes a literary tour of lyric essays written by the masters of the craft. Beginning with 1975 and John McPhee's ingenious piece, "The Search for Marvin Gardens," D'Agata selects an example of creative nonfiction for each subsequent year. These essays are unrestrained, elusive, explosive, mysterious—a personal lingual playground. They encompass and illuminate culture, myth, history, romance, and sex. Each essay is a world of its own, a world so distinctive it resists definition. Contributors include: Sherman Alexie David Antin Jenny Boully Anne Carson Guy Davenport Lydia Davis Joan Didion Annie Dillard Thalia Field Albert Goldbarth Susan Griffin…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 2/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.32" wide x 8.97" long x 1.44" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

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To the Reader


Prologue



1975 The Search for Marvin Gardens



1976 The Raven



1977 Unguided Tour



1978 Girl



1979 The White Album



1980 May Morning



1981 Country Cooking from Central France: Roast Boned Rolled Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb (Farce Double)



1982 Total Eclipse



1983 The Theory and Practice of Postmodernism: A Manifesto



1984 The Dream of India



1985 Erato Love Poetry



1986 The Marionette Theater



1987 Kinds of Water



1988 Oil



1989 Needs



1990 Notes Toward a History of Scaffolding



1991 Delft



October 1992 "... and nobody objected"



October 1992 Captivity



1993 Red Shoes



1994 Black



1995 Foucault and Pencil



1996 Life Story



1997 Ticket to the Fair



1998 Darling's Prick



1999 The Intercession of the Saints



2000 Monument



2001 A [characters not reproducible] I



2002 Sleep



2003 The Body



Epilogue: Things To Do Today