Fourth Genre
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Fourth Genre

Twenty-Five Essays from Our First Twenty-Five Years

  1. 278 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fourth Genre

Twenty-Five Essays from Our First Twenty-Five Years

About this book

Fourth Genre: Twenty-Five Essays from Our First Twenty-Five Years is an anthology of outstanding creative nonfiction published since the journal's first issue in 1999. Describing it as an anthology, though, feels too dry for this collection. Is it a mixtape, maybe? A literary festival or a potluck? A mosaic of voices, a tapestry, or an open mic? This volume includes essays on grief and guns, prayer and parenthood, fear and family, race and religion, hometowns and home cooking. It features stories from parents, teachers, scholars, activists, and artists, told in voices that represent white, Black, brown, gay, straight, transgender, and immigrant experiences. Ordinary people engaged in the extraordinary act of humble self-reflection, all wrestling with issues, big and small, trusting in the power of the personal to reveal essential truths about all of us. Each essay comes paired with writing prompts and a reflective note from the author that reveals their personal creative process, inviting readers to begin their own journeys of discovery. Whether you're here to teach, learn, or just savor fine writing, this book will remind you that life, in all its strange, wonderful, heartbreaking, devastating beauty and trauma, is always worth writing about.

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Information

Year
2025
Print ISBN
9781611865547
eBook ISBN
9781628955613

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Fourth Genre? More Like First Genre!
  7. Spires
  8. The Revolution Will Be Revised
  9. I’m Just Getting to the Disturbing Part
  10. Final: Comprehensive, Roughly
  11. Origins
  12. To Be American
  13. Racing in Place: 33 Hoosier Haiku
  14. Tent: A Memoir
  15. The Molino
  16. Still Life with Guns
  17. Occasional Prayer
  18. My Men
  19. Yummy
  20. The Beginning of Memory: January 2020
  21. Overlay
  22. The Natural History of My Begonia
  23. Starting Over
  24. See Me Slant: Poetry Considers Her Mother
  25. Chaos Is Itself an Order
  26. But We Loved It All the Same
  27. Geas
  28. God Bless Bonnie and Clyde
  29. The Storm That’s Always Happening to Everyone
  30. Fine Distinctions
  31. Marginalia
  32. Contributors

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