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The destiny thief : essays on writing, writers and life

Call Number

  • 814 R9699 (OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

Physical Description

205 pages ; 22 cm

Uniform Title

Essays. Selections

Notes

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.

Contents

  • The destiny thief
  • The gravestone and the commode (The Sewanee review, summer 2017)
  • Getting good (The Sewanee review, fall 2017)
  • Address to the 2004 graduates of Colby College
  • The pickwick papers (introduction to Modern Library Classics edition, 2003)
  • Imagining Jenny (afterword to Jennifer Boylan's She's not there: a life in two genders, 2003)
  • What frogs think: a defense of omniscience
  • Mark twain's nonfiction (introduction to volume 2, Everyman's Library edition, 2016)
  • The boss in Bulgaria.

Genres

Essays.

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