false 73115 4 7 The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Gettysburg Review, Utne Reader, and Crazyhorse. He edits BREVITY, the journal of concise creative nonfiction (www.brevitymag.com) and teaches at Ohio University.]]> male 819240 127632 0385492677 9780385492676 27 <![CDATA[The Accidental Buddhist]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171940396m/127632.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171940396s/127632.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127632.The_Accidental_Buddhist 4.06 174 73115 4.10 303 53 1997 2260552 080321149X 9780803211490 15 <![CDATA[Between Panic and Desire]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2260552.Between_Panic_and_Desire 4.11 53 Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. A book that could be named after one of its chapters, “A Post-Nixon, Post-panic, Post-modern, Post-mortem,” this collection is an unconventional memoir of one man and his culture, which also happens to be our own.</div><div> </div><div>Blending narrative and quizzes, memory and numerology, and imagined interviews and conversations with dead presidents on TV, the book dizzily documents the disorienting experience of growing up in a postmodern world. Here we see how the major events in the author’s early life—the Kennedy assassination, Nixon’s resignation, watching Father Knows Best, and dropping acid atop the World Trade Center, to name a few—shaped the way he sees events both global and personal today. More to the point, we see how these events shaped, and possibly even distorted, today’s world for all of us who spent our formative years in the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. A curious meditation on family and bereavement, longing and fear, self-loathing and desire, Between Panic and Desire unfolds in kaleidoscopic forms—a coroner’s report, a TV movie script, a Zen koan—aptly reflecting the emergence of a fractured virtual America.</div>]]> 73115 4.10 303 53 2008 793874 0321277619 9780321277619 3 <![CDATA[The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178416080m/793874.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178416080s/793874.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/793874.The_Truth_of_the_Matter_Art_and_Craft_in_Creative_Nonfiction 4.30 20 This introduction to creative nonfiction illustrates the influence of individual voice and narrative strategies on nonfiction prose. Essays from contemporary nonfiction writers such as Henry Louis Gates, Norma Elia Cantú, Pico Iyer, Joan Didion, and others are integrated directly into the text to illustrate concepts. Individual chapters are devoted to detail and description, characterization and scene, distinctive voice, intimate point-of-view, and the various ways in which writers discover the significance or universality of their work. For writers wanting to explore creative nonfiction.</P>]]> 73115 4.10 303 53 2006 63860 0861713540 9780861713547 4 <![CDATA[Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619435m/63860.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619435s/63860.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63860.Nixon_Under_the_Bodhi_Tree_and_Other_Works_of_Buddhist_Fiction 4.00 19 Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree is inventive, exciting, and unlike any collection before it.]]> 35940 4.00 19 4 75520 3.68 1311 218 201492 3.57 51 7 59244 3.55 51 12 3268764 4.00 19 4 3268765 4.00 19 4 3268766 4.00 19 4 3268767 4.00 19 4 67702 4.07 28 6 6481 3.85 419 147 284144 4.00 19 4 43238 3.82 2268 285 1336180 4.14 22 5 190578 4.17 35 5 232637 4.00 22 4 33377 3.64 42 12 395360 4.33 33 7 3268768 4.00 19 4 3268769 4.00 19 4 3268770 4.00 19 4 73115 4.10 303 53 3268771 4.00 19 4 270586 3.83 66 13 3268772 4.00 19 4 746148 4.39 31 7 490417 4.00 19 4 113892 3.74 849 107 3268773 4.00 19 4 5133 4.16 1212 182 552313 4.00 23 6 3271040 4.10 21 5 2004 580927 0971805954 9780971805958 0 <![CDATA[Sudden Stories: The MAMMOTH Book of Miniscule Fiction]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175983590m/580927.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175983590s/580927.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/580927.Sudden_Stories_The_MAMMOTH_Book_of_Miniscule_Fiction 4.56 9 73115 4.10 303 53 2003 1053113 0807130346 9780807130346 2 <![CDATA[Wide Awake in the Pelican State: Stories by Contemporary Louisiana Writers]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180543515m/1053113.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180543515s/1053113.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1053113.Wide_Awake_in_the_Pelican_State_Stories_by_Contemporary_Louisiana_Writers 4.33 6 Though united by talent and place, these writers speak with inflections that vary by gender, race, education, religion, and time spent elsewhere. Their stories are also richly diverse, ranging from Ernest Gaines's humorous portrait of black culture in rural Louisiana to Tim Parrish's aching depiction of white working-class family life in Baton Rouge, from Ellen Gilchrist's acerbically funny rendering of wealthy New Orleans bankers to Richard Ford's flinty unfolding of a father-son relationship in the marshy netherworld south of the Crescent City. The pieces span the full swath of Louisiana experience, be it the life of a Vietnamese refugee in Lake Charles or the miraculous appearance of the image of Jesus on a refrigerator in Holly Springs.

In addition to their Louisiana-rooted inspiration and highest regard for craft, the stories in Wide Awake in the Pelican State share a deep humanity. These are stories about people—noble and nefarious, some living high and others down on their luck—as they fathom the tragic depths and comic heights of love, betrayal, family, change, and life writ large.

Contributors to Wide Awake in the Pelican State: John Biguenet, James Lee Burke, Robert Olen Butler, Kelly Cherry, Moira Crone, Albert Belisle Davis, Charles deGravelles, John Dufresne, Richard Ford, Ernest J. Gaines, Louis Gallo, Tim Gautreaux, Norman German, Ellen Gilchrist, Joan Arbour Grant, Shirley Ann Grau, Dinty W. Moore, Tim Parrish, Tom Piazza, Nancy Richard, James Wilcox.

AUTHOR BIO: Ann Brewster Dobie is the editor of Something in Common: Contemporary Louisiana Stories and Uncommonplace: An Anthology of Contemporary Louisiana Poets. For thirteen years she served as director of the National Writing Project of Acadiana and now coordinates the Louisiana Writing Project. She is a professor emerita of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

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