Editor’s Notes by Daniel W. Lehman
In an engrossing interview published in this issue, veteran author and Brevity editor Dinty Moore drops a metaphor that speeds to the heart of great writing. Speaking of short essays with writer/editor Judith Kitchen, Moore says that the brief essay for which he searches “is kind of like parachuting out of a plane right into the fire. It’s like those very great Park Service people who jump out of planes and land thirty yards from where the fire is burning. I feel like the writer starts the reader there, and it’s hot from the first sentence.” Continue reading . . .
Contents
“Change of Equation” Sydney Lea ◆ “Petrography” Karen Babine ◆ “Kindly Dark” Steven Harvey ◆ “Conception: A Personal History” Kathryn Rhett ◆ “A Distraught Woman” Omar Eby ◆ “Smashing the Ants: An Essay Almost about Writing” Joe Kraus ◆ “Porn Bought My Football” Chris Offutt ◆ “Leaps of Faith” Buddy Levy ◆ “Mucking About” Penelope Schwartz Robinson ◆ “Such a Life” Lee Martin ◆ “Willy from Baltimore” Mimi Schwartz ◆ “Shine On” Floyd Skloot ◆ “Richland” Michael W. Cox ◆ “Right into the Fire: Notes on the Nonfiction Short: An Interview with Judith Kitchen and Dinty W. Moore” Jynelle A. Gracia, Judith Kitchen, Dinty W. Moore ◆ “Eye to Eye” Kirsten Whatley
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