Betwixt-and-between : essays on the writing life /

"Jenny Boully's essays are ripe with romance and sensual pleasures, drawing connections between the digression, reflection, imagination, and experience that characterizes falling in love as well as the life of a writer. Literary theory, philosophy, and linguistics rub up against memory, dr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Boully, Jenny (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Boully, Jenny. Authorship. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Authorship. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing. Essays.

Table of Contents:

Preface
the future imagined, the past imagined
Forecast essay
On writing and witchcraft
Inner workings, in meadows
Einstein on the beach/postmodernism/electronic beeps
On the Voyager golden records
The page as artifact
Between Cassiopeia and Perseus
Kafka's garden
Black-and-white movies in which I do not find you
Moveable types
How to write on grand themes
The art of fiction
Fragments
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On the EEO genre sheet
The poet's education
Writing betwixt-and-between
On beginnings and endings.