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Daniels, J. D., 1974-
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American essays -- 21st century.
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Daniels, J. D., 1974-
American essays -- 21st century.
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The correspondence /
J
.D.
Daniels
.
by
Daniels
,
J
.
D
., 1974-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Call #:
814.6 D186c
Subjects
American essays -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780374535940 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
126 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Essays.
Contents:
Letter from Cambridge -- Letter from Majorca -- Letter from Kentucky -- Letter from Level Four -- Letter from Devils Tower -- Letter from the Primal Horde.
Summary:
"A collection of the author's essays, previously published in The Paris Review. From a writer whose work has become a fixture of The Paris Review and n+1. Can civilization save us from ourselves? That is the question
J
.D.
Daniels
asks in this series of six letters written during dark nights of the soul. Working from his own highly varied experience--as a janitor, a night watchman, an adjunct professor, a drunk, an exterminator, a dutiful son--he considers how far books and learning and psychoanalysis can get us, and how much we're stuck in the mud. In prose wound as tight as a copper spring,
Daniels
takes us from the highways of his native Kentucky to the Balearic Islands and from the Pampas of Brazil to the rarefied precincts of Cambridge, Massachusetts. His traveling companions include psychotic kindergarten teachers, Israeli sailors, and Southern Baptists on fire for Christ. In each dispatch,
Daniels
takes risks--not just literary (voice, tone, form) but also more immediate, such as spending two years on a Brazilian jujitsu team (he gets beaten to a pulp, repeatedly) or participating in group psychoanalysis (where he goes temporarily insane).
Daniels
is that rare thing, a writer completely in earnest whose wit never deserts him, even in extremis. Inventive, intimate, restless, streetwise, and erudite, The Correspondence introduces a brave and original observer of the inner life under pressure.
J
.
D
.
Daniels
studied at the University of Louisville and Boston University. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, AGNI, n+1, Oxford American, The Best American Essays, and elsewhere."-- Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Essays.
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Halifax North Memorial Public Library
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814.6 D186c
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