Brooding - Arias, Choruses, Lullabies, Follies, Dirges, and a Duet

This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the memoir; writing; the essay itself; and Michael Martone's friendship with the writers David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Kurt Vonnegut.

About the author

MICHAEL MARTONE is a professor of English at the University of Alabama. He is the author of several books, including The Flatness and Other Landscapes, Unconventions: Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art, and Racing in Place (all Georgia). His stories and essays have appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Story, Antaeus, North American Review, Benzene, Epoch, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, Third Coast, Shenandoah, BOMB, and other magazines.

Summary

This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects. Throughout, Martone’s words inhabit spaces where the reconnection to people in the past and the metaphors of electronic memory converge.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Martone, Michael/ Griswold Martone
• Assisted by: John Griswold (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780820353074
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-5307-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Crux: The Georgia Series in Li; Crux: The Georgia Series in Li; Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Series; Crux: The Georgia Literary Non
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; Anthologien (nicht Lyrik), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing, Literature - Classics / Criticism