Snapshots

Name: Snapshots
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781350397057
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An Album of Essay and Image

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If pictures are worth a thousand words, what kinds of words might they inspire? What stories would they tell and would they be joyful or sad, elegant or savage? Snapshots features 36 such meditations from a diverse group of writers, each of whom draws on a... Read More

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Snapshots

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Featuring micro-essays inspired by a photograph from their personal archives, this collection offers a snapshot into the lives and interests of a diverse group of writers exploring the relationship between image and word.

Description

If pictures are worth a thousand words, what kinds of words might they inspire? What stories would they tell and would they be joyful or sad, elegant or savage?

Snapshots features 36 such meditations from a diverse group of writers, each of whom draws on a photograph from their personal archive to inspire a short essay.

Intimate and powerful, these reflections exhibit a range of sensibilities and experiences, offering unique insight into the lives and interests of both established and emerging authors. Expressing a dynamic array of styles, relationships, landscapes, and preoccupations, Snapshots is an album for our life and times.

The book includes pieces from the writers below:

Emilie Pascale Beck
Suzanne Berne
Aimee Bender
Sven Birkerts
Kate Carroll De Gutes
Stuart Dybek
Alex Espinoza
Lynell George
Amy Gerstler
Tod Goldberg
Hannah Howard
Vanessa Hua
Pico Iyer
Wayne Koestenbaum
Major Jackson
Leslie Jamison
Dinah Lenney
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Aimee Liu
Sonja Livingston
Attica Locke
Dinty W. Moore
Mara Naselli
Naomi Shihab Nye
Ivy Pochoda
Adriana E. Ramirez
Sejal Shah
Brandon Shimoda
Jessica Silvester
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Susan Straight
Grace Talusan
Abigail Thomas
Clifford Thompson
David L. Ulin
Diana Wagman

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350397057

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 February 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Illustration: 36 bw illus

Contributors:

Edited by Dinah Lenney

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 136.0mm

Height: 220.0mm

Weight: 360g

Pages: 168

Collections

Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Dinah Lenney has served as core faculty for the Bennington Writing Seminars and in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. A longtime nonfiction editor at LARB, she herself has published several books in the genre, including Coffee (as part of the Bloomsbury Object Lessons series), The Object Parade and Bigger than Life, and co-edited Brief Encounters: A Collection of Literary Nonfiction with the late Judith Kitchen. Dinah's essays and reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Washington Post among many other publications.