The kiss : intimacies from writers /

In this wide-ranging collection of essays, stories, graphic memoir and cross-genre work, writers explore the deeply human act of kissing.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Turner, Brian, 1967- (Editor), Addonizio, Kim, 1954- (Contributor), Ali, Kazim, 1971- (Contributor), Barizo, J. Mae (Contributor), Bosselaar, Laure-Anne, 1943- (Contributor), Brown, Kurt (Contributor), Brown, Nickole (Contributor), Busch, Benjamin, 1968- (Contributor), Castner, Brian (Contributor), Chang, Tina (Contributor), Church, Steven (Contributor), Dalva, Adam (Contributor), Doty, Mark (Contributor), Dubus, Andre, 1959- (Contributor), Dungy, Camille T., 1972- (Contributor), Espada, Martín, 1957- (Contributor), Essinger, David (Contributor), Fallon, Siobhan (Contributor), Fennelly, Beth Ann, 1971- (Contributor), Flynn, Nick, 1960- (Contributor), Hahn, Kimiko, 1955- (Contributor), Hammon, Cameron Dezen (Contributor), Hayes, Terrance (Contributor), Iyer, Pico (Contributor), Jackson, Major, 1968- (Contributor), Johnson, Lacy M., 1978- (Contributor), Kiefer, Christian, 1971- (Contributor), Komatsu, Matthew (Contributor), Kusnetz, Ilyse, 1966-2016 (Contributor), Limón, Ada (Contributor), Makkai, Rebecca (Contributor), Mauk, John (Contributor), Merrill, Christopher (Contributor), Metres, Philip, 1970- (Contributor), Miles, Kathryn, 1974- (Contributor), Moore, Dinty W., 1955- (Contributor), Moore, Honor, 1945- (Contributor), Nezhukumatathil, Aimee (Contributor), Nguyen, Bich Minh (Contributor), Obreht, Téa (Contributor), Radtke, Kristen (Contributor), Roberts, Suzanne (Contributor), Robinson, Roxana (Contributor), Schafer, John C. (Contributor), Sheehan, Dan (Contributor), Sleigh, Tom (Contributor), Smith, Patricia, 1955- (Contributor), Sukrungruang, Ira (Contributor), Wolfe, Christopher Paul (Contributor), Wolpé, Sholeh (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / by Brian Turner
  • The last kiss / by Nick Flynn
  • Notes on the invisible kiss / by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
  • The kiss at dawn / by Pico Iyer
  • Interlude / by Kim Addonizio
  • The kiss I would have spent on you / by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Kurt Brown
  • Bazooka Smackdown / by Patricia Smith
  • The summons / by Mark Doty
  • The secret kiss / by Ilyse Kusnetz
  • Where scars reside / by Major Jackson
  • A symphony in rain / by Kazim Ali
  • Kiss, kiss, kiss / by Camille T. Dungy
  • Light years / by Rebecca Makkai
  • Kissing Joe F-- / by Philip Metres
  • Half fable / by Terrance Hayes
  • The evolution of a kiss / by Nickole Brown
  • Kissing Melissa / by Benjamin Busch
  • Kiss, kiss / by Ira Sukrungruang
  • Trigger / by Lacy M. Johnson
  • A letter to my wife on her 40th birthday / by Brian Castner
  • Falling / by Andre Dubus III
  • The ride / Siobhan Fallon
  • Hollywood, ending. / by Schafer John c
  • A small harvest of kisses / Guy de Maupassant, Marcel Danesi, Diane Ackerman, Roxane Gay, U.S. Army's Journal for Homeland Defense Civil Support and Security Cooperation in North America, Aimee Bender, Junot Díaz, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. M. Barrie, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Durrant, Cormac McCarthy, Marlon James, Gabriel García Márquez, George Saunders, Toni Morrison, Markus Zusak, Brad Watson, HIlary Lawon, Steve Martin
  • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang / by Téa Obreht and Dan Sheehan
  • Contagion / by Roxana Robinson
  • Kiss / by Honor Moore
  • Genesis / by Christopher Merrill
  • A motion of pleasure / J. Mae Barizo
  • Kiss, bounce, grace / by Steven Church
  • Fruit / by Cameron Dezen Hammon
  • Fire the angel / by Martín Espada
  • Leaning in / by Dinty W. Moore
  • The revolutionary kiss / by Tina Chang
  • The heavy load / by Adam Dalva
  • Maude / by Kimiko Hahn
  • Judas kiss / by Tom Sleigh
  • The smuggler / by Ada Limón
  • A kiss for the dying / by Suzanne Roberts
  • A man without fear / by Sholeh Wolpé
  • Winter Solstice / by Bich Minh Nguyen
  • The greatest show on Earth / by Kristen Radtke
  • Skeery the blue / by Christian Kiefer
  • A reckoning of kisses / by Beth Ann Fennelly
  • Late-night sessions with a black liberal progressive / by Christopher Paul Wolfe
  • Aylan Kurdi, age three / by Matthew Komatsu
  • Bat vision / by John Mauk
  • Ein kuss im krieg / by Dave Essinger
  • The kisses we never give / by Kathryn Miles
  • On writing the intimate / with Nickole Brown, Benjamin Busch, Camille T. Dungy, Pico Iyer, Major Jackson, Philip Metres, and Sholeh Wolpé.