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Writing And Publishing Personal Essays
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Author : Sheila Bender
language : en
Publisher: Silver Threads
Release Date : 2010-10-01
Writing And Publishing Personal Essays written by Sheila Bender and has been published by Silver Threads this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this new edition of Writing and Publishing Personal Essays," Sheila Bender has taken a classic and made it even better. She continues to share the tips and secrets that have given so many of her students the skills to become confident writers. At the same time, she has brought the original up to date with new content and extensively revised resources. Writing and Publishing Personal Essays provides powerful encouragement to write...instructions for writing eight different kinds of personal essays special techniques for giving, receiving, and using critical feedback...proven tips for getting your writing published. Writing and Publishing Personal Essays shows why Sheila Bender is one of the most successful and sought-after writing teachers today.
Social Science And The Self
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Author : Susan Krieger
language : en
Publisher: Susan Krieger
Release Date : 1991
Social Science And The Self written by Susan Krieger and has been published by Susan Krieger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Self categories.
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Crafting The Personal Essay
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Author : Dinty W. Moore
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-08-11
Crafting The Personal Essay written by Dinty W. Moore and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"—a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the truth is that the personal essay is an ever-changing creative medium that provides an ideal vehicle for satisfying the human urge to document truths as we experience them and share them with others—to capture a bit of life on paper. Crafting the Personal Essay is designed to help you explore the flexibility and power of the personal essay in your own writing. This hands-on, creativity-expanding guide will help you infuse your nonfiction with honesty, personality, and energy. You'll discover: • An exploration of the basics of essay writing • Ways to step back and scrutinize your experiences in order to separate out what may be fresh, powerful, surprising or fascinating to a reader • How to move past private "journaling" and write for an audience • How to write eight different types of essays including memoir, travel, humor, and nature essays among others • Instruction for revision and strategies for getting published Brimming with helpful examples, exercises, and sample essays, this indispensable guide will help your personal essays transcend the merely private to become powerfully universal.
The Art Of The Personal Essay
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Author : Phillip Lopate
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 1997-01-15
The Art Of The Personal Essay written by Phillip Lopate and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-15 with Literary Collections categories.
For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking a walk -- to offer insight into the human condition and the great social and political issues of the day. The Art of the Personal Essay is the first anthology to celebrate this fertile genre. By presenting more than seventy-five personal essays, including influential forerunners from ancient Greece, Rome, and the Far East, masterpieces from the dawn of the personal essay in the sixteenth century, and a wealth of the finest personal essays from the last four centuries, editor Phillip Lopate, himself an acclaimed essayist, displays the tradition of the personal essay in all its historical grandeur, depth, and diversity.
Getting Personal
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Author : Philip Lopate
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2008-11-05
Getting Personal written by Philip Lopate and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-05 with Literary Collections categories.
From the man whose name is synonymous with the contemporary personal essay, Getting Personal is a rich and ambitious collection that spans Phillip Lopate's career as an essayist, teacher, film critic, father, son, and husband. Witty, insightful, deeply meditative, and self-revelatory, with his characteristic candor and curmudgeonly charm, he explores himself, his life, his family, his religion, and his friends.
Life As We Know It
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Author : Jennifer Foote Sweeney
language : en
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Release Date : 2003-10-21
Life As We Know It written by Jennifer Foote Sweeney and has been published by Washington Square Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"...these essays are jewels of the unexpected, and in introducing them, I don't want to steal any of their surprise. Suffice it to say that family life...is alive and well, but it is not like anything you ever read about before in your life." -- Jane Smiley, from the foreword The nuclear family peaked in 1960 with 45 percent of the American population. Many decades later, the tidy ensemble is rare. Relationships, baby making, sex, dating, divorce -- they aren't what they used to be. But the mainstream media keeps the reality of American life a secret, only leaking the occasional tidbit to remind us that those in "unconventional" configurations are a sad anomaly to be pitied or ignored. Life As We Know It offers proof in its most engaging form -- the personal essay -- that the big guys have got it wrong. This collection of blunt, lyrical, and often very funny work from award-winning Salon.com tells the true stories about how we live -- of hustling fertility drugs, losing a child, hating dad, and coming to terms with a parent who was the voice of "Frosty the Snowman" on TV. First-time writers and critically acclaimed authors like Amy Bloom, Kathryn Harrison, Susan Straight, and Benjamin Cheever, plumb the familiar to deliver portraits of moments, seasons, and eras that we recognize or long to understand.
So Sad Today
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Author : Melissa Broder
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-03-15
So Sad Today written by Melissa Broder and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From acclaimed poet and creator of the popular twitter account @SoSadToday comes the darkly funny and brutally honest collection of essays that Roxane Gay called "sad and uncomfortable and their own kind of gorgeous." Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings, and which quickly gained a dedicated following. In So Sad Today, Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter, grappling with sex, death, love low self-esteem, addiction, and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back. With insights as sharp as her humor, Broder explores--in prose that is both ballsy and beautiful, aggressively colloquial and achingly poetic--questions most of us are afraid to even acknowledge, let alone answer, in order to discover what it really means to be a person in this modern world.
Literary Awakenings
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Author : Ronald Koury
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2017-02-02
Literary Awakenings written by Ronald Koury and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
During the past thirty years, the editors of the Hudson Review have observed a trend among some of the best literary essayists and reviewers to situate their criticism in a deeply personal manner as opposed to the theoretical, technocratic work being produced in many literary and academic publications. Over time, the Hudson Review became a home for this kind of accessible, memoirist writing. Literary Awakenings collects eighteen essays published over the last three decades that celebrate the writer’s relationship with literature, one that is deeply shaped by experience and remembrance. The essays gathered here recall disparate awakenings to the influence of literature and discoveries of the many ways in which it enriches nearly every aspect of our lives. Antonio Muñoz Molina describes his education as a writer and a citizen as a form of protest against Franco’s totalitarian regime in Spain. Drawing upon Huckleberry Finn, Wendell Berry meditates on the impulse to escape that literature often invokes, and Judith Pascoe’s tribute to Clarissa confesses to the appeal of reading select literature that initiates one into an exclusive coterie of people. What unites these diverse contributions is the joy of appreciation, the pleasures of engaging with literature.
The Art Of The Personal Essay
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Portrait Inside My Head
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Author : Phillip Lopate
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-02-25
Portrait Inside My Head written by Phillip Lopate and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Presents a collection of essays on a life well lived, sharing provocative observations on topics ranging from the challenges of a Brooklyn childhood and the pleasures of baseball to movies and friendship.