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Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity
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ISBN10: 0989360458
ISBN13: 9780989360456
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Published: Apr 14 2015
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780989360456
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Published: Apr 14 2015
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
FEATURING WORK FROM LYDIA DAVIS, JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, JAMAICA KINCAID, ANNE LAMOTT, GEORGE SAUNDERS, AND MANY MORE An anthology-manifesto proving that in our mortal, godless, digital age, the shortest art hits hardest--featuring 40 masters of the mini-essay and flash fiction who make every word count Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a courses worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, post-religious age; and a meditation on the brevity of human existence. 1. We are mortal beings.
2. There is no god.
3. We live in a digital culture.
4. Art is related to the body and to the culture.
5. Art should reflect these things.
6. Brevity rules. The book's 40 contributors include Donald Barthelme, Kate Chopin, Lydia Davis, Annie Dillard, Jonathan Safran Foer, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Jamaica Kincaid, Wayne Koestenbaum, Anne Lamott, Daphne Merkin, Rick Moody, Dinty W. Moore, George Orwell, Jayne Anne Phillips, George Saunders, Lauren Slater, James Tate, and Paul Theroux.
3. We live in a digital culture.
4. Art is related to the body and to the culture.
5. Art should reflect these things.
6. Brevity rules. The book's 40 contributors include Donald Barthelme, Kate Chopin, Lydia Davis, Annie Dillard, Jonathan Safran Foer, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Jamaica Kincaid, Wayne Koestenbaum, Anne Lamott, Daphne Merkin, Rick Moody, Dinty W. Moore, George Orwell, Jayne Anne Phillips, George Saunders, Lauren Slater, James Tate, and Paul Theroux.
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