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“Your heart is big enough for both of us, so that there is no room for mockery in me. Anyone willing to strip themselves this bare this fast this way deserves our breathlessness and our hearts’ attention. Let us spend an hour, then longer, in contemplation. If you open, open all the way, or as much as you can bear, or else there’s nothing here at all.” Ander Monson“I have been here before, in this place where losing myself is the same as finding myself. I return whenever I can, to be in this pla...
An enjoyable collection to read; for writers, even more enjoyable for learning about flash nonfiction as a form. My favorites: Brian Doyle, Abigail Thomas, Rebecca McClanahan, Erin Murphy, Brian Trapp, Suzanne Farrell Smith, Steven Church, Jennifer Sinor, Marcia Aldrich, Joe Oestreich, Bret Lott, J.D. Schraffenberger, Pam Durban, Lynn Drummon, Sarah J. Lin, Anna Vodicka, Beverly Donofrio, Randon Billings Noble, Sonya Huber, and Roxane Gay. Get the picture?
A really excellent collection of flash non-fiction.Particularly liked the pieces by Michelle Valois, Sarah J. Lin, Mark Stricker, and Brenda Miller but there were just so many truly strong pieces.
"Short form non-fiction". Intense. More like reading prose poems. I think I was expecting more technical type writing but much of it was moving, even wrenching autobiographical accounts...
Some of these were amazing. Some were ok. Some were interesting.Read for school.
This is a beautifully curated collection of astonishing and inspirational stories. As a writer who aspires to write better in this genre, I found so many essays to inspire me. Now that I've read them all, I plan to study them as self-teaching tools. Form, POV, structure, voice, language-- every essay has so much to explore.
I read this book hoping to someday write with the emotional depth and meaning that these writers accomplish in their own 750 words. And each one was an inspiration. Not only are the essays wonderful, but I found the material at the back especially helpful. Essays are categorized by theme as well as form. When I wanted to look at several braided essays and compare them one to each other, that was easy to do. Other information related to a second flash nonfiction resource was also helpful. This is...
Having read The Mindful Writer by Dinty W. Moore, when the recommendation came from a friend to read The Best of Brevity, a collection of flash non-fiction from the online magazine he founded, I happily agreed.I might be one of the last people to know about flash (fiction or non-). Essays? I’ve written a fair few over the years, and thought at first that flash non-fiction was merely an abbreviated essay. This beautiful book, however, quickly disabused me of that.The book’s format let me jump aro...
This is a book that will appeal to flash readers, flash writers, and flash teachers, and many of us who are all three. … This is also a book for readers unfamiliar with flash. It’s fun to read. You can read it in small bits, and adapt to what’s required by each flash without advance preparation. There are plenty of cultural critics who argue that our attention spans aren’t what they used to be, and bemoan the rise of reading flash as symptomatic of our current inability to comprehend longer form...
