Book
The kiss : intimacies from writers
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Physical Description
xv, 222 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"In this wide-ranging collection of essays, stories, graphic memoir, and cross-genre work, writers explore the deeply human act of kissing"--From book jacket.
Contents
- The last kiss / Notes on the invisible kiss / The kiss at dawn / Interlude / The kiss I would have spent on you / Bazooka Smackdown / The summons / The secret kiss / Where scars reside / by Major Jackson
- A symphony in rain / Kiss, kiss, kiss / Light years / Kissing Joe F-- / The evolution of a kiss / Kissing Melissa / Kiss, kiss / Trigger / A letter to my wife on her 40th birthday / Falling / The ride / Hollywood, ending. / by Schafer John c
- A small harvest of kisses / Kiss Kiss Bang Bang / Contagion / Kiss / Genesis / A motion of pleasure / Kiss, bounce, grace / Fruit / Fire the angel / Leaning in / The revolutionary kiss / The heavy load / Maude / Judas kiss / The smuggler / A kiss for the dying / A man without fear / Winter Solstice / The greatest show on Earth / Skeery the blue / A reckoning of kisses / Late-night sessions with a black liberal progressive / Aylan Kurdi, age three / Bat vision / Ein kuss im krieg / The kisses we never give / On writing the intimate