Betwixt-and-Between

Essays on the Writing Life

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Writing & Publishing, Authorship, Health & Well Being, Self Help, Self Improvement, Creativity, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Letters, Essays
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Author: Jenny Boully ISBN: 9781566895187
Publisher: Coffee House Press Publication: April 3, 2018
Imprint: Coffee House Press Language: English
Author: Jenny Boully
ISBN: 9781566895187
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publication: April 3, 2018
Imprint: Coffee House Press
Language: English

“Powerful” essays exploring the experience of the writer—and the nature of experience itself (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).

Shortlisted for the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Award in Nonfiction

Jenny Boully’s essays are ripe with romance and sensual pleasures, drawing connections between the digression, reflection, imagination, and experience that characterize 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. Betwixt-and-Between is, in many ways, simply a book about how to live.

“[Boully’s] prose is reminiscent of Lydia Davis’—spare, elliptical, unexpected—and sometimes, in her rhythmic cadences, of Gertrude Stein’s . . . Graceful meditations on love, loneliness, and the magic of words.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Jenny Boully is a deeply weird writer—in the best way.” —Ander Monson

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“Powerful” essays exploring the experience of the writer—and the nature of experience itself (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).

Shortlisted for the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Award in Nonfiction

Jenny Boully’s essays are ripe with romance and sensual pleasures, drawing connections between the digression, reflection, imagination, and experience that characterize 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. Betwixt-and-Between is, in many ways, simply a book about how to live.

“[Boully’s] prose is reminiscent of Lydia Davis’—spare, elliptical, unexpected—and sometimes, in her rhythmic cadences, of Gertrude Stein’s . . . Graceful meditations on love, loneliness, and the magic of words.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Jenny Boully is a deeply weird writer—in the best way.” —Ander Monson

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