Brooding

Regular price €26.50
Regular price €27.50 Sale Sale price €26.50
A01=Michael Martone
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Michael Martone
automatic-update
B09=John Griswold
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=CBV
Category=DNF
Category=DNL
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_non-fiction
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
SN=Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Series
softlaunch

Product details

  • ISBN 9780820353074
  • Weight: 350g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Mar 2018
  • Publisher: University of Georgia Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock

10-20 Working Days
: On Backorder

Will Deliver When Available
: On Pre-Order or Reprinting

We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!

This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the memoir; writing; the essay itself; and Michael Martone’s friendship with the writers David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Kurt Vonnegut. Throughout the essays, Martone’s style expands with the incorporation of new technological platforms. Several of the pieces were written specifically for online venues, while the essays on the death of Martone’s mother and father were written on Facebook while the events happened. One essay about using new technologies in the classroom was written solely in tweets.

Brooding—the book’s title and the title of an essay—draws a parallel between the disappearance of early browsers and the emergence, after seventeen years, of a brood of cicadas. Throughout these essays Martone’s words inhabit spaces where the reconnection to people in the past and the metaphors of electronic memory converge.

MICHAEL MARTONE is a professor of English at the University of Alabama. He is the author of several books, including The Flatness and Other Landscapes, Unconventions: Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art, and Racing in Place (all Georgia). His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, Story, Antaeus, North American Review, Benzene, Epoch, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, Third Coast, Shenandoah, BOMB, and other magazines.