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In Short:
A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction

by Judith Kitchen, Mary Paumier Jones

ISBN 0393314928 / 9780393314922 / 0-393-31492-8
Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc
Language English
Edition Softcover
List price $13.95
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Welcome to the first anthology to identify and celebrate a new nonfiction form: the Short!

Something is going on out there. Almost simultaneously, many of our finest writers are experimenting with a new nonfiction form: brief pieces that are literary and personal rather than informational, complete in themselves, and shortvery short. Although the form has not had a name until now, the writers who are atrracted to it include the knownTim O'Brien, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, Michael Ondaatjeas well as just-discovered voices in the field of creative nonfiction, a genre that is transforming the essay.

Delights and surprises await the reader in this rich gathering of Shorts (ranging from several paragraphs to two thousand words). From Diane Ackerman's fascination with hummingbirds, to Andrei Codrescu's idiosyncratic view of nostalgia, to Albert Goldbarth's free-wheeling riff on the universe, each Short becomes a sharply focused lens on an outer world or an inner sensibility.

In Short, reflecting almost every way in which nonfiction can be written, is for all readers (and writers) who thrive on imaginative play and aesthetic satisfaction. Pick up this book; open it up. See if you can resist it.
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