Happy to Share

Readers!  I'm happy to share the good news that Between Song and Story:  Essays for the Twenty-first Century is now available.  The collection, edited by Sheryl St. Germain and Margaret Whitford, "celebrates the contemporary essay's capacity to live between the two worlds of lyric and narrative" and "exemplifies the diverse, exuberant, and intrepid forms" that essays take now. 

I'm thrilled that my piece "Grip" is included among work by writers I wildly admire:  Dorothy Allison, Tom Bissell, Linda Hogan, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Jamaica Kincaid, Naomi Shihab Nye, John T. Price, John Edgar Wideman, and scads more.  Joyce Carol Oates.  Phillip Lopate.  Debra Marquart, Dinty Moore, Michele Morano--stop me.  It's just a super-awesome lineup, and I can't wait to dig in.

The editors have offered alternative tables of contents, too, by theme (travel, race & ethnicity, nature, war, etc.) and also by form, so it seems like it would be a great anthology for teaching.  Hmmm . . . To read more about the book, you can go here.

Many thanks and congratulations to editors Sheryl and Margaret!  ¡Felicidades!