Impossible Owls - Essays from the Ends of the World

Zusatztext 'Phillips is a long-form journalist of the old school! a deep research artist! and a killer stylist . . . Impossible Owls is an absorbing and totally distinctive exploration of wildly disparate corners of our world' Informationen zum Autor BRIAN PHILLIPS is a former staff writer for Grantland and former senior writer for MTV News. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and Slate, among other publications, and his work has appeared in Best American Sports Writing and Best American Magazine Writing. He lives in central Pennsylvania. IMPOSSIBLE OWLS is his first book. Klappentext A thought-provoking collection of long-form non-fiction on contemporary sumo wrestling, ritual suicide, Russian animation, "The X-Files" and more. A vibrant, surprising and thought-provoking collection of long-form essays from an exciting new literary voice who has been compared to John Jeremiah Sullivan , David Foster Wallace and Janet Malcolm Zusammenfassung A vibrant, surprising and thought-provoking collection of essays from an exciting new literary voice who has been compared to John Jeremiah Sullivan, David Foster Wallace and Janet Malcolm

Product details

• Authors: Brian Phillips
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.11.2020
• EAN: 9781474607841
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-0784-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Alaska, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Travel writing, Reportage & collected journalism, Literary essays, Reportage, journalism or collected columns