How we speak to one another : an Essay Daily reader / edited by Ander Monson & Craig Reinbold.

"The essay is rhizomatic: it builds off and shoots out conversations between us every time we read, reread, or write. When we speak back to others we amplify ourselves and get a foothold in an ongoing conversation. How We Speak to One Another collects those conversations, giving context to a ge...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Monson, Ander, 1975- (Editor), Reinbold, Craig, 1982- (Editor)
Other title:	Essay daily (Blog)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2017.
Subjects:	American essays > 21st century. American essays.

Table of Contents:

Here's how you use the lion mints: an introduction to How We Speak to One Another / Ander Monson
Invisible engineering: the fine art of revising "The fine art of sighing" / Marcia Aldrich
On Christ Marker's Sans Soleil / Kristen Radtke
Majestic ruins: on the work of James Agee / Robin Helmley
On essays, assays, and Yiyun Li's "Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life" / V.V. Ganeshananthan
The assault on prose: John Crowe Ransom, new criticism, and the status of the essay / Robert Atwan
On Joan Didion, Repo Man, and a '76 Malibu / Matt Dube
On Collage, Chris Kraus, and misremembered Didion / Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Looking for Samuel Delany / T Clutch Fleischmann
Observations about writing memoir in my twenties, thirties, and forties / Rigoberto González
On the mysterious Leslie Ryan and the structure of a trauma narrative / Katherine E. Standefer
On Arianne Zwartje's "This suturing of wounds or words" and Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel's "Cannulated screw" / Julie Lauterbach-Colby
Living within the ellipses: on Ilan Stavan's On Borrowed Words: a Memoir of Language / César Díaz
On Joan Didion, on the morning after my twenties / Emily Deprang
On writing young / Lucas Mann
On losing yourself / Danica Novgorogoff
Is the essay at the end of time? / Ken Chen
Email / from Bonnie J. Rough
On the essential art of failing / Peter Grandbois
Leaping / Albert Goldbarth
Julian Barnes brings light to a thanatophobe's conundrum / Alison Hawthorne Deming
On Tom Junod's "The falling man" / Steven Church
We sought but couldn't find: coming up empty in David Shields's "Death is the mother of beauty" / Bethany Maile
Movie quotes as misery: on Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely / David Legault
A paperback cabinet of wonder: unlocking the long lyric essay / Joni Tevis
The essays of Ansel Adams: an allegory / John D'Agata
10 thoughts on Elision / Meehan Crist
On Donald Hall's "Out the window" / Thomas Mira y Lopez
On the virtues of drowning: Lidia Yuknavitch's the Chronology of Water / Danielle Cadena Deulen
On Hoagland, animal obsession, and the courage of simile / John T. Price
On David Quammen and writing trout / Maya L. Kapoor
On long winters, short essays, and a sky that stretches forever / Chelsea Biondolillo
On Wendell Berry and why I'm not going to buy a smartphone / Megan Kimble
It is a shaggy world, studded with gardens / Brian Doyle
Nonfiction like a brick / Nicole Walker
On the fugue, Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?, DFW, and the resistance to the one thing / Paul Lisicky
On The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling by David Shoemaker / Brian Oliu
On Rick Reilly's "Need a fourth?" from Sports Illustrated, March 31, 1997 / Pam Houston
On Jim Bouton's Ball Four / Dave Mondy
On a little-known gem by Max Beerbohm / Phillip Lopate
On Eliot Weinberger's "Wrens" / Amy Benson
On Charles Lamb's "New Year's Eve" / Patrick Madden
On the Book of Days / Elena Passarello
On the false glint of fool's gold and cliché / Erin Zweiner
The present of our past: on Alexander Stille / Patricia Vigerman
A fat man story: on H.L. Mencken's "A neglected anniversary" / Ander Monson
On endings: all in all, it was a really weird summer / Ryan van Meter.

How we speak to one another : an Essay Daily reader / edited by Ander Monson & Craig Reinbold.

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