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The Shell Game

Name: The Shell Game
Author: Kim Adrian

Writers Play with Borrowed Forms

Kim Adrian,

304 pages
English
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The Shell Game

Writers Play with Borrowed Forms

Kim Adrian,

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Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls "hermit crab essays." The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays that borrow their structures from ordinary, everyday sources: arecipe, a crossword puzzle, a Craig's List ad. Like their zoological namesake, these essaysdo not simply wear their borrowed "shells" but inhabit them so perfectly that the borrowed structures are wholly integral rather than contrived, both shaping the work and illuminating and exemplifying its subject. The Shell Game contains a carefully chosen selection of beautifully written, thought-provoking hybrid essays tackling a broad range of subjects, including the secrets of the human genome, the intractable pain of growing up black in America, and the gorgeous glow residing at the edges of the autism spectrum. Surprising, delightful, and lyric, these essays are destined to become classics of this new and increasingly popular hybrid form.

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Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Year

2018

ISBN

9781496206275

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Essays

Index

Literature

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword: Discovering the Hermit Crab Essay
Introduction: A Natural History of the North American Hermit Crab Essay
Grand Theft Auto
Ok, Cupid
Rubik’s Cube, Six Twisted Paragraphs
Solving My Way to Grandma
Genome Tome
As Is
Falling in Love with a Glass House: Twenty-Four Views of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House
Son of Mr. Green Jeans: An Essay on Fatherhood, Alphabetically Arranged
Snakes & Ladders
Math 1619
Stagecraft
We Regret to Inform You
The Six Answers on the Back of a Trivia Card
Piecing the Quilt of Valor
Self-Portrait as a 1970s Cineplex Movie Theatre (an Abecedarian)
The Forgetting Test
#miscarriage.exe
SECTION 404
The Body (an Excerpt)
Questionnaire for My Grandfather
The Petoskey Catechism, 1958
What Signifies (Three Parables)
The Marriage License
The Heart as a Torn Muscle
The Spectrum (of Miracles and Mysteries)
“Easy as Pie,” That’s a Lie
Outline toward a Theory of the Mine versus the Mind and the Harvard Outline
The Clockwise Detorsion of Snails: A Love Essay in Sectors
Postscript: Forms on the Page
Source Acknowledgments
Contributors