The Inevitable : Contemporary Writers Confront Death
Author(s): David Shields & Bradford Morrow
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Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes ghost bikes in memory of those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a family history of heart attacks and decimation by the Holocaust; Mark Doty, whose reflections on the art-porn movie Bijou lead to a meditation on the intersection of sex and death epitomised by the AIDS epidemic; and Joyce Carol Oates, who writes about the loss of her husband and faces her own mortality. Other contributors include Annie Dillard, Diane Ackerman, Peter Straub, Brenda Hillman and Terry Castle.
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David Shields is the author of eight previous books, and he has written for publications such as the New York Times Book Review, Harper's, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, and McSweeney's. Shields has received a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He is a professor in the English department at the University of Washington, and he teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College. Residence: Seattle, WA Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Bradford Morrow is the author of five novels and the founding editor of Conjunctions literary journal. He is the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, the 2007 PEN/Nora Magid Award for excellence in editing a literary journal, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes. Residence: NYC Hometown: Baltimore, MD
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- : WW Norton & Co
- : WW Norton & Co
- : 0.259
- : 01 March 2011
- : 210mm X 140mm X 21mm
- : United States
- : 01 April 2011
- : books
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- : David Shields & Bradford Morrow
- : Paperback
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- : 810.93548
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