{"product_id":"betwixt-and-between-jenny-boully-9781566895101","title":"Betwixt-And-Between: Essays on the Writing Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch.\" --John D'Agata\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without 'complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.' Jenny Boully has done it.\" --Mary Jo Bang\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jenny Boully is a deeply weird writer--in the best way.\" --Ander Monson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJenny 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, dreamscapes, and fancy, making the practice of writing a metaphor for the illusory nature of experience. \u003cem\u003eBetwixt and Between\u003c\/em\u003e is, in many ways, simply a book about how to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJenny Boully \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Body: An Essay\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Beginnings and Endings: Essays\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003enot merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them\u003c\/em\u003e, and other books. Born in Thailand, she grew up in Texas and holds a PhD in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She teaches creative writing and literature at Columbia College Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jenny Boully\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1566895103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566895101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 4.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/19\/2018","brand":"Jenny Boully","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046783447295,"sku":"9781566895101","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c3a94f84-7584-456a-bfde-242ea5290bdb.jpg?v=1684986467","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/betwixt-and-between-jenny-boully-9781566895101","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}