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- Publication Date
- 2018-04-01
- Pages
- 276
- ISBN
- 9780803296763
- Book Title
- Shell Game : Writers Play with Borrowed Forms
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Literary Collections
- Topic
- Essays
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 14.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 276 Pages
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Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls "hermit crab essays." The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays that borrow their structures from ordinary, everyday sources: a recipe, a crossword puzzle, a Craig's List ad. Like their zoological namesake, these essays do not simply wear their borrowed "shells" but inhabit them so perfectly that the borrowed structures are wholly integral rather than contrived, both shaping the work and illuminating and exemplifying its subject. The Shell Game contains a carefully chosen selection of beautifully written, thought-provoking hybrid essays tackling a broad range of subjects, including the secrets of the human genome, the intractable pain of growing up black in America, and the gorgeous glow residing at the edges of the autism spectrum. Surprising, delightful, and lyric, these essays are destined to become classics of this new and increasingly popular hybrid form.
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803296762
ISBN-13
9780803296763
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240054605
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shell Game : Writers Play with Borrowed Forms
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Essays
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Literary Collections
Number of Pages
276 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Ps689
Reviews
"Daring, innovative, and mind-bending, this anthology showcases the best of what is arguably the most exciting new thing on the literary landscape today: the borrowed form essay."--Kathy Fish, coauthor of Rift and author of Wild Life, "If good creative writing sparks the instinct to write, The Shell Game provides ample embers to inspire a wide range of writers. . . . If any writer stumbles into The Shell Game , even for a few essays, they are bound to come away with some fresh ideas and new perspectives, a renewed hankering to examine the quotidian and evaluate the details and textures around them to render them in new, yet recognizable ways."--Rachel Kathryn Rueckert, Columbia Journal, "Hermit crab essays, without proper care, are at risk of devolving into cute pets . . . but The Shell Game makes a unique and significant contribution to helping avoid this fate."--Rebecca Fish Ewan, Split Rock Review, "Virginia Woolf asked of the essay 'simply that it should give pleasure.' The Shell Game fulfills this request, even exceeds it, bringing startling diversity of subject, voice, and form. Each essay is a new surprise, a prettier shell than ordinary, demonstrating astonishing originality in mimicry and providing, for this reader at least, pure joy."--Patrick Madden, author of Sublime Physick and Quotidiana, "The essays in this collection bring with them a sense of hope about literature and its capacity for evolution and change. . . . Ultimately, maybe it's this promise of transformation and adaptation that makes hermit crab essays so appealing. They encourage us to move forward, and they show us how many different paths we might take."--Vivian Wagner, Millions, " The Shell Game may serve to expand what readers may think of when they think of the essay. Among the grocery lists and Post-It notes, comic sketches and sermons, and the other ephemera of our everyday lives, essayistic elements exist--searching for their shells."--Sadaf Ferdowsi, Punctuate, "Of course you'll want to let essay fans know they'll enjoy this book. But also be sure to let people know that, if they're also a writer or if they teach writing, this collection can serve as a model. You've always been somewhat of a rebel, so you'll want writers, especially those who stick to more rigid forms, to read this book to encourage them to have fun with their work. To take risks and chances."-- Hippocampus Magazine, "Daring, innovative, and mind-bending, this anthology showcases the best of what is arguably the most exciting new thing on the literary landscape today: the borrowed form essay."--Kathy Fish, coauthor of Rift and author of Wild Life "Virginia Woolf asked of the essay 'simply that it should give pleasure.' The Shell Gamei fulfills this request, even exceeds it, bringing startling diversity of subject, voice, and form. Each essay is a new surprise, a prettier shell than ordinary, demonstrating astonishing originality in mimicry and providing, for this reader at least, pure joy."--Patrick Madden, author of Sublime Physick and Quotidiana, "If you are looking for a book that fits into the genre of "Creative Nonfiction," especially as an introduction, your best bet is to pick up The Shell Game immediately. . . . This book is the science fiction of creative nonfiction, or better yet, the Ulysses of the modern essay. It's a shell for itself, in that, without claiming these essays as "essays," one wouldn't know what to call them, what to do with them. The Shell Game is far from the five paragraphs that grammar schools teach, and it makes readers feel as if they are learning what an essay is (or could be) all over again."--Cody Lee, New Pages
Table of Content
Contents Foreword: Discovering the Hermit Crab Essay Brenda Miller Introduction: A Natural History of the North American Hermit Crab Essay Kim Adrian Grand Theft Auto Joey Franklin Ok, Cupid Sarah McColl Rubik's Cube, Six Twisted Paragraphs Kathryn A. Kopple Solving My Way to Grandma Laurie Easter Genome Tome Priscilla Long As Is Brian Oliu Falling in Love with a Glass House: Twenty-Four Views of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House Jennifer Metsker Son of Mr. Green Jeans: An Essay on Fatherhood, Alphabetically Arranged Dinty W. Moore Snakes & Ladders Anushka Jasraj Math 1619 Gwendolyn Wallace Stagecraft Mary Peelen We Regret to Inform You Brenda Miller The Six Answers on the Back of a Trivia Card Caitlin Horrocks Piecing the Quilt of Valor Judith Sornberger Self-Portrait as a 1970s Cineplex Movie Theatre (an Abecedarian) Steve Fellner The Forgetting Test Lee Upton #MISCARRIAGE.EXE Ingrid Jendrzejewski SECTION 404 Cheyenne Nimes The Body (an Excerpt) Jenny Boully Questionnaire for My Grandfather Kim Adrian The Petoskey Catechism, 1958 Elizabeth Kerlikowske What Signifies (Three Parables) David Shields The Marriage License Judy Bolton-Fasman The Heart as a Torn Muscle Randon Billings Noble The Spectrum (of Miracles and Mysteries) Steve Edwards "Easy as Pie," That's a Lie Amy Wallen Outline toward a Theory of the Mine versus the Mind and the Harvard Outline Ander Monson The Clockwise Detorsion of Snails: A Love Essay in Sectors Karen Hays Postscript: Forms on the Page Cheyenne Nimes Source Acknowledgments Contributors Contributor's Note Michael Martone 
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2017-043654
Dewey Decimal
814.608
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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