Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader
Autor Sue William Silvermanen Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2025
The essays in Selected Misdemeanors are unapologetic word grenades lobbed into an otherwise complacent forgetfulness. Throughout the collection, Sue William Silverman focuses on pivotal, often fleeting moments that defined the course of her life, such as a fraught family vacation; an evening watching the Chippendale dancers’ extravaganza; a Pac-Man-and-whisky-fueled rumination on failed relationships; and the way melodramatic movies such as Rome Adventure shape an adolescent’s idea of love. Ranging from short to flash to micro length, these emotionally courageous writings imbue minimalist forms with maximalist emotions and an unrepentant, no-holds-barred attitude. Each action explored in this collection produces the Butterfly Effect—seemingly quotidian events rippling into emotional tsunamis.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781496244222
ISBN-10: 1496244222
Pagini: 204
Ilustrații: 13 photographs
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1496244222
Pagini: 204
Ilustrații: 13 photographs
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Sue William Silverman is an award-winning memoirist, essayist, and poet of eight previous books, including How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences (Nebraska, 2020) and Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul (Nebraska, 2024). She is co-chair of the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Cuprins
Author’s Note
Part 1. Strange Entanglements
At the Apollo Theatre
Coming Attractions
Child Care
On Understanding Time for the First Time
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time When She Was Forced to Hold the Crayon . . .
Scratching the Surface
Time Travel for Beginners
Postcard: The Berkshires
A Treatise on Dark Matter(s)
Learning the Antimatter of What Matters
Retainer
Postcard: Monhegan Island, Maine
Harbor Lights
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time in Puerto Rico . . .
7-Up as a Cure for Irony
The Silence Detector
My Russian Heritage
Drinks for All Occasions
Snow on Cherries
Love Deferment
Miss Demeanor Considers the First of Many Jobs . . .
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Lived in a Room . . .
Respect, Almost
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Posed as an Israeli . . .
Manilow Fidelity
Carry On
Part 2. How To and How Not
Library with Hyacinth, Girl, and Guns
How To
How to Find a Snow Leopard in Georgia
Negative Capabilities
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Hid . . .
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Was Married . . .
Mug Shots with Fellow Fugitives
The Poetic Sentence
Missing the Clues
On Liminality
Exchange Rates
Remembrance of Things Past
The Long Road Out of Eden
Postcard: Greetings from Atlantic City!
The Undertaking
Reflections on Blue Velvet
The Family Chiroptera
The Soft Beauty of an Ordinary Life
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Stood under the Boardwalk . . .
Trashy
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time between Hippiedom and Adulthood . . .
Degas Paints the Chippendales and Me
Part 3. Grieflets
Too
Grieflets
Psych Ward, Drought
Expiration Date
Against Ruin
Emerald Isle
Al Di Là
Into the Wild of the Calm
The Lost Art of the Near Tilt
The Origin of Her Superpowers
Miss Demeanor Must Consider, Whether She Wants to or Not . . .
Miss Demeanor Must Also Consider the Time Her Father . . .
Tinea Capitis
A Grand Unified Theory of Disease
Organ Music
Dyscalculia
Postcard: The Big Apple!
Postcard: New York City
Xeroxing Christie
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Got Her First Author Photo . . .
Miss Demeanor Considers Her Desk (Messy Like Her Life) . . .
The Memory Box
Seeking Paradise on the Road to Nowhere
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Strange Entanglements
At the Apollo Theatre
Coming Attractions
Child Care
On Understanding Time for the First Time
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time When She Was Forced to Hold the Crayon . . .
Scratching the Surface
Time Travel for Beginners
Postcard: The Berkshires
A Treatise on Dark Matter(s)
Learning the Antimatter of What Matters
Retainer
Postcard: Monhegan Island, Maine
Harbor Lights
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time in Puerto Rico . . .
7-Up as a Cure for Irony
The Silence Detector
My Russian Heritage
Drinks for All Occasions
Snow on Cherries
Love Deferment
Miss Demeanor Considers the First of Many Jobs . . .
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Lived in a Room . . .
Respect, Almost
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Posed as an Israeli . . .
Manilow Fidelity
Carry On
Part 2. How To and How Not
Library with Hyacinth, Girl, and Guns
How To
How to Find a Snow Leopard in Georgia
Negative Capabilities
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Hid . . .
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Was Married . . .
Mug Shots with Fellow Fugitives
The Poetic Sentence
Missing the Clues
On Liminality
Exchange Rates
Remembrance of Things Past
The Long Road Out of Eden
Postcard: Greetings from Atlantic City!
The Undertaking
Reflections on Blue Velvet
The Family Chiroptera
The Soft Beauty of an Ordinary Life
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Stood under the Boardwalk . . .
Trashy
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time between Hippiedom and Adulthood . . .
Degas Paints the Chippendales and Me
Part 3. Grieflets
Too
Grieflets
Psych Ward, Drought
Expiration Date
Against Ruin
Emerald Isle
Al Di Là
Into the Wild of the Calm
The Lost Art of the Near Tilt
The Origin of Her Superpowers
Miss Demeanor Must Consider, Whether She Wants to or Not . . .
Miss Demeanor Must Also Consider the Time Her Father . . .
Tinea Capitis
A Grand Unified Theory of Disease
Organ Music
Dyscalculia
Postcard: The Big Apple!
Postcard: New York City
Xeroxing Christie
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Got Her First Author Photo . . .
Miss Demeanor Considers Her Desk (Messy Like Her Life) . . .
The Memory Box
Seeking Paradise on the Road to Nowhere
Acknowledgments
Recenzii
"These stories take a nonlinear path that makes the memoir so authentic and resonant as well as showing us that real growth is messy."—booksthatmakeyou.com
“Selected Misdemeanors invites us to do what often feels impossible—to reframe difficult memories, not as good or bad, but as glimpses into a larger whole. Silverman does this with eloquence, reminding us that we can own our stories and meet our past selves with empathy.”—Aurora Bonner, Center for Literary Publishing
“Sue William Silverman refreshes the idea that insight is best found in the granules. From piece to piece this book constructs a constellation of wonder, each point of light written with resilience, wit, heartbreak, and a stunning forthrightness.”—Paul Lisicky, author of Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell
“A master essayist, Sue William Silverman harnesses all at her disposal—poetry, photographs, film, and, most of all, her luminous and lyrical prose—to resurrect memory and interrogate loneliness, longing, and loss. The result is a full-throated, gorgeous, multi-layered meditation on obsession and desire. The heat rises off the page.”—Sonja Livingston, author of Ghostbread
“The quality of Sue William Silverman’s seeing, the angle of her gaze, and the way she builds a frame for readers to view our own tragic, complicated, beautiful lives make this collection distinctive. Throughout, I am struck by the way Silverman folds time, navigating the rich span of her years on this planet to locate vital patterns and connections. These essays contain such wisdom about the making of a life. . . . Silverman is a national treasure.”—Jill Christman, author of If This Were Fiction
Descriere
The essays in Selected Misdemeanors range from short to flash to micro length, focusing on pivotal, often fleeting moments that define the course of a life.