Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity by Professor David Shields (9780989360456)

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ISBN: 9780989360456

Format: Paperback / softback, 320 pages , 229mm x 140mm x 20mm

Published: 14-Apr-2015

Imprint: Hawthorne Books

Publisher: Hawthorne Books

Description - Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity by Professor David Shields

Life Is Short--Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a course's worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, post-religious age; and a meditation on the brevity of human existence.

1. We are mortal beings.
2. There is no god.
3. We live in a digital culture.
4. Art is related to the body and to the culture.
5. Art should reflect these things.
6. Brevity rules.

The book's 40 contributors include Donald Barthelme, Kate Chopin, Lydia Davis, Annie Dillard, Jonathan Safran Foer, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Jamaica Kincaid, Wayne Koestenbaum, Anne Lamott, Daphne Merkin, Rick Moody, Dinty W. Moore, George Orwell, Jayne Anne Phillips, George Saunders, Lauren Slater, James Tate, and Paul Theroux.

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Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity

Professor David Shields

Elizabeth Cooperman

Description - Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity by Professor David Shields

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