Brief encounters : a collection of contemporary nonfiction
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Physical Description
350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary
A collection of the best creative nonfiction of the year includes entries by such authors as Roxanne Gay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Jamison, Julian Barnes, and Patricia Hampl.
Contents
- Aphorisms & ten-second essays / What I hear / Listen / Dispatch from Montevideo, in which the Madden family flies to Uruguay and plays the lottery / One long sentence / Why I travel / La plata perdida / What didn't happen / Summer days, 1983 / Excerpt from Don't let me be lonely / White / Passover rental furniture: Houston / Brief treatise against irony / Cocoons / Max and Minna / No results found / Parental pride / Thoughts on time after viewing Christian Marclay's The clock / The Renaissance / A tale of two cities / Sputnik 2 / Why the long face? / Home on the prairie: Lincoln, Nebraska / There are distances between us / Spokane is a coat: 1978 / O pioneers! / Stranded / Things gone the way of time / 4 for Easter / Chess piece / Red / Umbrellas / Star light, star bright / Wild life / American animal / What the osprey knows / Clotheslines / Foul ball / Post-game / The fan / Joltin' Joe has left and gone away / The insomniac manifesto / Viennese pathology museum / Ichthyosis / Los Angelitos / The summer after / How to banish melancholy / Brooding / Fats / Hoffmanniana / When you write about murder / Traffic / Securing District Four / Winter journal: the first three pages / If Mr. Clean had been my father / The nun / Swerve / Between / A brief history of water / Water rising / Crease / The wardrobe series / Mom x 3 / Gifts / Thanksgiving picnic / the Blur family / Who / A thousand Mary Doyles / Swing / Hunger / A phone call with my father / Future imperfect / Grief / The desire to write about The green line / Motes in the light / Reading / The revolution needs a song