In Short

A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction

By: Judith Kitchen

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Paperback | 17 July 1996 | Edition Number 1

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Something is going on out there. Almost simultaneously, many of our finest writers are experimenting with a new nonfiction form: brief pieces that are literary and personal rather than informational, complete in themselves, and short-very short. Although the form has not had a name until now, the writers who are atrracted to it include the known-Tim O'Brien, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, Michael Ondaatje-as well as just-discovered voices in the field of creative nonfiction, a genre that is transforming the essay.

Delights and surprises await the reader in this rich gathering of Shorts (ranging from several paragraphs to two thousand words). From Diane Ackerman's fascination with hummingbirds, to Andrei Codrescu's idiosyncratic view of nostalgia, to Albert Goldbarth's free-wheeling riff on the universe, each Short becomes a sharply focused lens on an outer world or an inner sensibility.

In Short, reflecting almost every way in which nonfiction can be written, is for all readers (and writers) who thrive on imaginative play and aesthetic satisfaction. Pick up this book; open it up. See if you can resist it.

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The selection of authors is impressive, and the work consistently engaging. I'm already planning classes around In Short. --Bernard Cooper To read ?In Short? is to experience, in essay after essay, the disproportionate power of the small to move, persuade, and change us. --Bernard Cooper" To read ?In Short? is to experience, in essay after essay, the disproportionate power of the small to move, persuade, and change us. --Bernard Cooper To read In Short is to experience, in essay after essay, the disproportionate power of the small to move, persuade, and change us. --Bernard Cooper

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Preface: The Disproportionate Power of the Small	p. 17
Editors' Introduction	p. 23
Lights	p. 31
All-Out Effort	p. 32
Volar	p. 34
Around the Corner	p. 37
Enough Jam for a Lifetime	p. 39
An Unspoken Hunger	p. 44
Three Voices	p. 45
Proofs	p. 48
Tino and Papi	p. 55
Last Shot	p. 57
LZ Gator, Vietnam, February 1994	p. 60
Culloden	p. 62
Afternoon Tea	p. 65
The Shock of Teapots	p. 68
Harbour	p. 72
The Opposite of Saffron	p. 74
In Praise of the Humble Comma	p. 79
Suspended	p. 83
The Blues Merchant	p. 85
The Usual Story	p. 87
Joe Turner's Come and Gone: The Play	p. 90
Sunday	p. 92
Mint Snowball	p. 94
Borrowed Time	p. 96
Loose Ends	p. 98
Nostalgia	p. 100
Across the Street	p. 102
A Wind from the North	p. 104
Snow	p. 107
Decoy	p. 110
Growing Up Game	p. 115
Rose Vegetables	p. 120
Interlude	p. 123
Orange Who?	p. 125
Hands	p. 128
The Signature of God	p. 131
My Children Explain the Big Issues	p. 133
The Complaint	p. 136
My Mother in Two Photographs, Among Other Things	p. 138
Ice Cream	p. 142
On the Street	p. 144
Call Guy	p. 146
Locker Room Talk	p. 149
White Men Can't Drum	p. 152
Cat-Like	p. 157
MRI	p. 162
On Two Wheels	p. 165
Running Xian	p. 168
A Note About Allen Tate	p. 172
Fernando and Marisela	p. 175
A Voice for the Lonely	p. 178
Museum Piece	p. 183
An End to the Still Lifes	p. 185
Three Fragments	p. 191
Inheritance	p. 193
Modern Times	p. 194
Nostalgia for Everything	p. 198
On the Way Home	p. 200
Falling Stars	p. 201
Three Yards	p. 203
The Tree Beyond Imagining	p. 206
December Meditation at Camp Polk Cemetery	p. 210
Notes Toward Identifying a Body	p. 215
A Match to the Heart	p. 219
Rain	p. 221
Proud Flesh	p. 223
April 15	p. 227
Walking	p. 229
Into the Storm	p. 233
Crazy Horse	p. 237
Nacoochee Indian Mound: Helen, Georgia	p. 239
The Stories Tell the Land	p. 241
Sanctuary	p. 244
Buckeye	p. 247
August	p. 251
Stonehenge and the Louvre Were Cool	p. 253
Winter	p. 259
Natural Edges	p. 261
Good Use for Bad Weather	p. 264
Greenhouse	p. 268
Nature's See-Saw	p. 270
Outside's Not What We Think	p. 275
Falling	p. 280
Grubby	p. 281
Children in the Woods	p. 284
We Are Distracted	p. 288
One Human Hand	p. 293
Mute Dancers: How to Watch a Hummingbird	p. 295
Farder to Reache	p. 299
The Fine Art of Sighing	p. 301
Biographical Notes	p. 305
Permissions	p. 321
Index	p. 329
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