{"product_id":"blurring-the-boundaries-9780803236486","title":"Blurring the Boundaries","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts and lies. Just how much truth is in nonfiction? How much is a lie? \u003cem\u003eBlurring the Boundaries\u003c\/em\u003e sets out to answer such questions while simultaneously exploring the limits of the form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Inspire[s] oblique imitation by simply collecting so much excellent writing in one place. . . . Well-suited to student-writers, which should include all of us, because [the essays] allow us to look under the hood and see the machinery that makes such moving creative nonfiction.”—\u003ci\u003eFourth Genre\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A nifty little book.\"—Paul L. Martin, \u003ci\u003eTeacher's View \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eB.J. Hollars\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Introduction: Let the Blurring Begin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcia Aldrich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      The Structure of Trouble\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"The Structure of Trouble\": Fitting Function to Form\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonica Berlin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      The Eighteenth Week\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"The Eighteenth Week\": On Point of View\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEula Biss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Time and Distance Overcome\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"Time and Distance Overcome\": The Rewards of Research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Boudinot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      An Essay and a Story about Mötley Crüe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"An Essay and a Story about Mötley Crüe\": Knowing One's Audience and Making Your Dreams Come True\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAshley Butler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Dazzle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"Dazzle\": The Fluidity of Boundaries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven Church\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Thirty Minutes to the End: An Essay to My Aunt Judy on the Occasion of the May 4, 2007, Tornado\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"Thirty Minutes to the End: An Essay to My Aunt Judy on the Occasion of the May 4, 2007, Tornado\": Rethinking Genre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStuart Dybek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Bait\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"Bait\": The Hybridity of Form\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeth Ann Fennelly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Salvos into the World of Hummers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"Salvos into the World of Hummers\": The Convergence of Subject and Style\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobin Hemley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Flagpole Wedding, Coshocton, Ohio, 1946: An Essay on Process\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"Flagpole Wedding, Coshocton, Ohio, 1946: An Essay on Process\": Transitioning from Notes to Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaomi Kimbell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Whistling in the Dark\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"Whistling in the Dark\": When Telling Lies Reveals Truth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Dana Kupperman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      71 Fragments for a Chronology of Possibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"71 Fragments for a Chronology of Possibility\": An Eight-Fragment, Five-Paragraph Essay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Maliszewski\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Headaches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"Headaches\": Articulating the Inexplicable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Martone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Asymmetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"Asymmetry\": The Typewriter Is Not a Typewriter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnder Monson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Outline toward a Theory of the Mine versus the Mind and the Harvard Outline\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Outline toward a Reflection on the Outline and the Splitting of the Atom, I Mean the Colorado River, I Mean Our Collective Attentions, or Maybe I Mean the Brain, Which Is Mostly Forks, You Know\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDinty W. Moore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Four Essential Tips for Telling the Truth in Personal Memoir and Securing That Blockbuster Book Deal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"Four Essential Tips for Telling the Truth . . .\": Implementing Exaggeration and Humor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Neville\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      A Visit to the Doctor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"A Visit to the Doctor\": The Omission of I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrian Oliu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Contra\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"Contra\": Nostalgia and the Shared Experience\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLia Purpura\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Squirrel: An Ars Poetica\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"Squirrel: An Ars Poetica\": Starting in One Place and Ending in Another\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendy Rawlings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Why I Hope My Soap Opera Will Outlive Me and Other Confessions about a Dying Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"Why I Hope My Soap Opera Will Outlive Me and Other Confessions about a Dying Art\": Breaking the Fourth Wall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Van Meter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Monster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      On \"Monster\": The Immersion Effect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting Exercises\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405251617111,"sku":"9780803236486","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803236486.jpg?v=1730489287","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/blurring-the-boundaries-9780803236486","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}