Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393350999)

The late Judith Kitchen, editor of the perennially popular anthologies Short Takes, In Short, and In Brief, was greatly influential in recognizing and establishing flash creative nonfiction as a form in its own right. In Brief Encounters, she and writer/editor/actor Dinah Lenney expand this vibrant field with nearly eighty new selections: shorts--as these sharply focused pieces have come to be known-- representing an impressive range of voices, perspectives, sensibilities, and forms. Brief Encounters features the work of the emerging and the established--including Stuart Dybek, Roxanne Gay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Jamison, and Julian Barnes--arranged by theme to explore the human condition in ways intimate, idiosyncratic, funny, sad, provocative, lyrical, unflinching. From the rant to the rave, the meditation to the polemic, the confession to the valediction, this collection of shorts--this celebration of true and vivid prose--will enlarge your world.

Author: Judith Kitchen
ISBN-10: 0393350991
ISBN-13: 9780393350999
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2015
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2015
Library Journal 09/01/2015 pg. 100
Booklist 09/01/2015 pg. 28