| Description |
463 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Man who invented the automatic jumping bean / El Huitlacoche (Bilingual Review) -- Doing good / John Balaban (Hudson Review) -- Civilization and isolation / Vine Deloria (North American Review) -- Literature and lucre: a meditation / Leslie Fiedler (Genre) -- Memories of unhousement, a memoir / Clark Blaise (Salmaqundi) -- Notes on failure / Joyce Carol Oates (Hudson Review) -- Self, Landscape, Grid / Terrence Des Pres (New England Review and Broadleaf Quarterly) -- Poetry and ambition / Donald Hall (Kenyon Review) -- Not-knowing / Donald Barthelme (Georgia Review) -- Paper tigers / Eliot Weinberger (Sulfur) -- Against 'Joie de vivre' / Phillip Lopate (Ploughshares) -- Excellent things in women / Sara Suleri (Raritan) -- Redneck secrets / William Kittredge (Graywolf) -- Atlas of civilization / Seamus Heaney (Parnassus: Poetry in Review) -- Snapping turtle in June / Franklin Burroughs (Georgia Review) -- Anonymity / Susan Bergman (North American Review) -- Maintenance / Naomi Shihab Nye (Georgia Review) -- Mine own John Berryman / Philip Levine (Gettysburg Review) -- On dumpster diving / Lars Eighner (Threepenny Review) -- Day at the St. Regis with Dame Edith / Perdita Schaffner (American Scholar) -- Wallace Stevens / Robert Hass (Threepenny Review) -- Homage to the runner: bloody brain work / Marvin Bell (American Poetry Review) -- Thousand Buddhas / Brenda Miller (Georgia Review) |
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Skunk dreams / Louise Erdrich (Georgia Review) -- Oyez a Beaumont / Vicki Hearne (Raritan) -- Sex / Irma Wallem (Zyzzyva) -- Jessica, the hound, and the casket trade / Thomas Lynch (Witness) -- New York Days, 1958-1964 / Charles Simic (Gettysburg Review) -- Two accidents: reflections on chance and creativity / Lewis Hyde (Kenyon Review) -- Hemingway story / Andre Dubus (Kenyon Review) -- Murder of crows / Daniel Henry (Northern Lights) -- Borrowed finery / Paula Fox (Threepenny Review) -- Neon effects / Emily Hiestand (Southwest Review) -- Toward humility / Brett Lott (Fourth Genre) -- Canals of Mars / Gary Fincke (Shenandoah). |
| Processing Action |
cat o stacks pcc 20030506 rlm UPB |
| Genre/Form |
American essays -- 20th century.
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| Subject |
Essays.
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Little magazines -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Brandt, Anthony, editor.
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Pushcart Press.
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| ISBN |
1888889241 |
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1888889292 paperback |
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