Short Takes
Brief Encounters With Contemporary Nonfiction
Invigorating creative nonfiction—short, but never slight—gathered by the co-editor of In Short and In Brief.
In the years since the perennially popular In Short and In Brief were published, readers have come to delight in the deft focus of the succinct piece we now call The Short. Extending this trend, Short Takes presents over seventy-five writers whose range and style demonstrate the myriad ways we humans have of telling our truths. Themes develop and speak to or collide with one another: musings about parents, childhood, sports, weather, war, solitude, nature, loss—and, of course, love. The stellar roster of contributors includes well-known writers—Verlyn Klinkenborg, Jo Ann Beard, David Sedaris, Dorothy Allison, Salman Rushdie, and Terry Tempest Williams—along with Michael Perry, Mark Spragg,…
Writer and educator Judith Kitchen (1941–2014) was the cofounder of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.
Brief Encounters
Judith Kitchen and Dinah Lenney, editors
Short Takes
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Judith Kitchen;Mary Paumier Jones
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World...
David Graeber; edited by Nika Dubrovsky; foreword by Rebecca Solnit
Memories of Distant Mountains
Orhan Pamuk
The Position of Spoons
Deborah Levy
Making Love with the Land
Joshua Whitehead
A Book of Days
Patti Smith
Nowhere, Exactly
M.G. Vassanji
Some of My Best Friends
Tajja Isen
Burning Questions
Margaret Atwood
Care Of
Ivan Coyote
Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology
Various; Edited by Jordan Abel and Carleigh Baker
A Guest at the Feast
Colm Tóibín
A Private Spy
John le Carré; edited by Tim Cornwell
Languages of Truth
Salman Rushdie
Letters of Note: Grief
Compiled by Shaun Usher