Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity - Softcover

Shields, David; Cooperman, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989360458 ISBN 13: 9780989360456

Verlag: HAWTHORNE BOOKS, 2015

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Worthy collection of examples of the flash essay and prose poems.
NICHOLE L. REBER, Ploughshares

In his short story, "Adultery," Tim Parks writes, "One lives such a short time, yet wishes to do everything, and then to recapture everything." Read this collection for the stories, and then read them again and again, taking great care to capture everything.
SANTI ELIJAH HOLLEY, The Portland Mercury

Half meditation on the nature of the form, half textbook for the instruction of the same, the anthology mostly succeeds on both fronts, remaining highly readable and full of erudite commentary.
ALEX MCCOWN, The AV Club

Reseña del editor:

Life Is ShortArt Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a course’s worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, post-religious age; and a meditation on the brevity of human existence.

1. We are mortal beings.
2. There is no god.
3. We live in a digital culture.
4. Art is related to the body and to the culture.
5. Art should reflect these things.
6. Brevity rules.

The book’s 40 contributors include Donald Barthelme, Kate Chopin, Lydia Davis, Annie Dillard, Jonathan Safran Foer, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Jamaica Kincaid, Wayne Koestenbaum, Anne Lamott, Daphne Merkin, Rick Moody, Dinty W. Moore, George Orwell, Jayne Anne Phillips, George Saunders, Lauren Slater, James Tate, and Paul Theroux.

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• Verlag: HAWTHORNE BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0989360458
• ISBN 13: 9780989360456
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320