{"product_id":"manure-dreams-and-other-essays-richard-holinger-9798999103420","title":"Manure Dreams and Other Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eManure Dreams and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of travel, memoir, descriptive, humour, and nature essays, all sewn together with the themes of writing, teaching, and literature. Most of the essays involve situations leading to humorous or epiphanic outcomes. As Joan Didion famously asserted, she didn't know how she felt about something until she wrote about it; with the process of writing comes clarity and, perhaps, instruction. By describing what happened, Richard Holinger is led to understandings that often reveal a universal theme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e One evening on a fly-fishing pond he discovers how he's influenced unusually an acquaintance not met for fifty years. Or, asked to be the guest speaker (when not Catholic or a Knight) at a Knights of Columbus dinner celebrating 8th graders who won a writing contest responding to what it is to be an American, he discovers patriotism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne essay was deemed \"Notable\" in \u003cem\u003eBest American Essays 2018\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Hilton Als; others appear in journals \u003cem\u003eChautauqua, Chicago Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, Hobart, Cutleaf, \u003c\/em\u003e among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Holinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798999103420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Choeofpleirn Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Richard Holinger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48623611019519,"sku":"9798999103420","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/manure-dreams-and-other-essays-richard-holinger-9798999103420","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}