Brief Encounters

A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction

Judith Kitchen, Dinah Lenney

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Norton
11 December 2015

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary essays

The late Judith Kitchen, editor of the perennially popular anthologies Short Takes, In Short, and In Brief, was greatly influential in recognizing and establishing flash creative nonfiction as a form in its own right.

In Brief Encounters, she and writer/editor/actor Dinah Lenney expand this vibrant field with nearly eighty new selections: shorts-as these sharply focused pieces have come to be known- representing an impressive range of voices, perspectives, sensibilities, and forms. Brief Encounters features the work of the emerging and the established-including Stuart Dybek, Roxanne Gay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Jamison, and Julian Barnes-arranged by theme to explore the human condition in ways intimate, idiosyncratic, funny, sad, provocative, lyrical, unflinching.

From the rant to the rave, the meditation to the polemic, the confession to the valediction, this collection of shorts-this celebration of true and vivid prose-will enlarge your world.

Edited by: Judith Kitchen, Dinah Lenney
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 277g
ISBN: 9780393350999
ISBN 10: 0393350991
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 11 December 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Writer and educator Judith Kitchen (1941-2014) was the cofounder of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Dinah Lenney teaches writing in the Bennington Writing Seminars, the Rainier Writing Workshop, and at the University of Southern California.

Reviews for Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction

These are encounters you'll want to have, ones that transform you, the way all great writing does, by language plain and brilliant, seductive and honest, only these do it more quickly-usually with a single turn of the page. The book is a revolution in reading, one you will be happy to join, and the writers are all ones you want to see more of. -- Robert Shapard, editor of Sudden Fiction and Flash Fiction