{"product_id":"betwixt-and-between-essays-on-the-writing-life-paperback","title":"Betwixt-And-Between: Essays on the Writing Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJenny Boully\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch.\" --John D'Agata\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without 'complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.' Jenny Boully has done it.\" --Mary Jo Bang\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jenny Boully is a deeply weird writer--in the best way.\" --Ander Monson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJenny Boully's essays are ripe with romance and sensual pleasures, drawing connections between the digression, reflection, imagination, and experience that characterizes falling in love as well as the life of a writer. Literary theory, philosophy, and linguistics rub up against memory, dreamscapes, and fancy, making the practice of writing a metaphor for the illusory nature of experience. \u003cem\u003eBetwixt and Between\u003c\/em\u003e is, in many ways, simply a book about how to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJenny Boully \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Body: An Essay\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Beginnings and Endings: Essays\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003enot merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them\u003c\/em\u003e, and other books. Born in Thailand, she grew up in Texas and holds a PhD in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She teaches creative writing and literature at Columbia College Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJenny Boully is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Body: An Essay\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Beginnings and Endings: Essays, not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them\u003c\/i\u003e, and other books. Born in Thailand, she grew up in Texas and holds a Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She teaches creative writing and literature at Columbia College Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 140\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.7 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771481620768,"sku":"9781566895101","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/440357a32278b9fcfd1732a596e6693b.webp?v=1780387319","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/betwixt-and-between-essays-on-the-writing-life-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}