Short Takes PA
ISBN: 9780393326000 | 0393326004
Edition: 00Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 7/17/2005
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In the years since the perennially popular In Short and In Brief were published, readers have come to delight in the deft focus of the succinct piece we now call The Short. Extending this trend, Short Takes presents over seventy-five writers whose range and style demonstrate the myriad ways we humans have of telling our truths. Themes develop and speak to or collide with one another: musings about parents, childhood, sports, weather, war, solitude, nature, loss#xE2;#x80;#x94;and, of course, love. The stellar roster of contributors includes well... MORE
| Editor's Introduction | 11 | (8) | |||
| PEGGY SHUMAKER | |||||
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| LUCIA PERILLO | |||||
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| STEPHEN KUUSISTO | |||||
| 28 | (7) | |||
| REBECCA McCLANAHAN | |||||
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| RICHARD RODRIGUEZ | |||||
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| MARY CLEARMAN BLEW | |||||
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| MARK SPRAGG | |||||
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| ANN DAUM | |||||
| 54 | (6) | |||
| PAMELA MICHAEL | |||||
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| SALMAN RUSHDIE | |||||
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| NAOMI SHIHAB NYE | |||||
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| JOE MACKALL | |||||
| 71 | (4) | |||
| LAWRENCE SUTIN | |||||
| 75 | (6) | |||
| LIA PURPURA | |||||
| 81 | (1) | |||
| ANNE MCDUFFIE | |||||
| 82 | (6) | |||
| AMY TAN | |||||
| 88 | (3) | |||
| KELLY CHERRY | |||||
| 91 | (2) | |||
| DOROTHY ALLISON | |||||
| 93 | (4) | |||
| KIM BARNES | |||||
| 97 | (7) | |||
| KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE | |||||
| 104 | (3) | |||
| KATRINA ROBERTS | |||||
| 107 | (3) | |||
| JAMES GALVIN | |||||
| 110 | (2) | |||
| VERLYN KLINKENBORG | |||||
| 112 | (3) | |||
| LARRY WOIWODE | |||||
| 115 | (7) | |||
| TED KOOSER | |||||
| 122 | (2) | |||
| KENT MEYERS | |||||
| 124 | (4) | |||
| SVEN BIRKERTS | |||||
| 128 | (5) | |||
| SHERMAN ALEXIE | |||||
| 133 | (4) | |||
| STEPHEN DUNN | |||||
| 137 | (2) | |||
| PAUL ZIMMER | |||||
| 139 | (5) | |||
| DAVID HUDDLE | |||||
| 144 | (3) | |||
| SCOTT ELY | |||||
| 147 | (5) | |||
| JUDITH KITCHEN | |||||
| 152 | (8) | |||
| JANET WONDRA | |||||
| 160 | (6) | |||
| WANG PING | |||||
| 166 | (3) | |||
| LAWRENCE MILLMAN | |||||
| 169 | (4) | |||
| RON CARLSON | |||||
| 173 | (3) | |||
| MICHAEL MARTONE | |||||
| 176 | (5) | |||
| DAVID SEDARIS | |||||
| 181 | (7) | |||
| BARBARA MALLONEE | |||||
| 188 | (4) | |||
| STEPHEN COREY | |||||
| 192 | (4) | |||
| BARBARA HURD | |||||
| 196 | (4) | |||
| REG SANER | |||||
| 200 | (8) | |||
| CHARLES BERGMAN | |||||
| 208 | (5) | |||
| SUSANNE ANTONETTA | |||||
| 213 | (6) | |||
| ANN PANCAKE | |||||
| 219 | (8) | |||
| PICO IYER | |||||
| 227 | (5) | |||
| M.J. IUPPA | |||||
| 232 | (3) | |||
| BRENDA MILLER | |||||
| 235 | (3) | |||
| PAUL LISICKY | |||||
| 238 | (3) | |||
| MARY PAUMIER JONES | |||||
| 241 | (3) | |||
| SAMUEL HYNES | |||||
| 244 | (4) | |||
| JOANN BEARD | |||||
| 248 | (6) | |||
| EMILY HIESTAND | |||||
| 254 | (6) | |||
| JOSEPH EPSTEIN | |||||
| 260 | (4) | |||
| PETER BALAKIAN | |||||
| 264 | (7) | |||
| HAYDEN CARRUTH | |||||
| 271 | (3) | |||
| LUC SANTE | |||||
| 274 | (4) | |||
| STUART DYBEK | |||||
| 278 | (2) | |||
| SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS | |||||
| 280 | (3) | |||
| DINTY W. MOORE | |||||
| 283 | (9) | |||
| MICHAEL DATCHER | |||||
| 292 | (3) | |||
| SONJA LIVINGSTON | |||||
| 295 | (7) | |||
| ANNE PANNING | |||||
| 302 | (3) | |||
| JOANNA McNANEY | |||||
| 305 | (2) | |||
| VALERIE MINER | |||||
| 307 | (7) | |||
| JOYCE THOMPSON | |||||
| 314 | (4) | |||
| GERALD STERN | |||||
| 318 | (4) | |||
| MICHAEL PERRY | |||||
| 322 | (6) | |||
| BILL CAPOSSERE | |||||
| 328 | (5) | |||
| MARVIN BELL | |||||
| 333 | (4) | |||
| S.L. WISENBERG | |||||
| 337 | (6) | |||
| JANE BROX | |||||
| 343 | (2) | |||
| TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS | |||||
| 345 | (2) | |||
| JOHN MCPHEE | |||||
| 347 | (7) | |||
| SANDRA SWINBURNE | |||||
| 354 | (5) | |||
| ALBERT GOLDBARTH | |||||
| 359 | (8) | |||
| Biographical Notes | 367 | (16) | |||
| Alphabetical Contents | 383 | (4) | |||
| List of Themes | 387 | (6) | |||
| Permissions | 393 |
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