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Pirates You Don't Know, and Other Adventures in the Examined Life : Collected Essays /

"Starting in 2005, John Griswold began publishing his nonfiction essays in Inside Higher Ed, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Brevity, Ninth Letter, and Adjunct Advocate under the pen name Oronte Churm. This collection contains heavily revised previously published essays but much more new ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Griswold, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The pirate's waltz
  • Unemployed, in Greenland?
  • The art of war
  • The expulsion of Oronte Churm
  • Tenacity
  • Crocodiles
  • Killing pirates
  • I didn't know
  • The unknown
  • Desire
  • Confessions
  • Time monkeys
  • Quid pro quo, Dr. Lecter
  • Show, don't tell
  • Creative writing in the academy
  • Letter to a former student now graduated
  • You shall know them by their music
  • Hardheads
  • Seeing
  • Microgeographies
  • Geedunk and geegaws
  • Move-in blues
  • The recipe in the writing class
  • A remembrance of gravies past
  • Being mistaken for bookish
  • Notes for an essay on race and class in a university town
  • Looking for writers beyond their work
  • Where your standardized testing money goes
  • The unlikelihood of fathers
  • The college of hard knocks
  • Languor
  • We transit
  • Repose
  • Coming to know a place.