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008			160630s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2016019207
020			_a9780231179683 (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_a9780231179690 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020			_z9780231543132 (e-book)
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC
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050	0	0	_aPN3377.5.F53 _bG35 2016
082	0	0	_a808.3/1 _223
100	1		_aGalef, David,
245	1	0	_aBrevity : _ba flash fiction handbook / _cDavid Galef.
263			_a1611
264		1	_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c2016.
300			_apages cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aCover has crossed out text, "The art of writing very short fiction; A guide to writing flash fiction; A short short-short primer."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Over the past ten years or so, "Short-shorts" or "Flash Fiction" has emerged as an increasingly popular and visible genre within fiction. David Galef's Brevity offers a guide to the genre for creative writing students by combining discussions of the various approaches and methods within the genre, examples of the form, and prompts for students to develop their own writing. Galef includes examples of the short-short genre from such writers as Collette, Donald Barthelme, and Borges. He examines the ways in which these authors drew on the form and how compression and other techniques are able to produce works of power, humor, or insight. Galef argues that developing one's skills in the short-short form can also carry over to other forms of writing. Galef, a writer and longtime creative-writing instructor, guides the reader through these stories and techniques and also provides exercises based on the content or technique employed in the stories" -- _cProvided by publishers.
505	0		_aShort introduction -- Vignettes. Readings: Colette: Tthe other wife"; Isaac Babel: "An incident on the Nevsky Prospekt" -- Character sketches. Readings: L. E. Leone: "The argument for a shotgun"; Josefina Estrada: "The extravagant behavior of the naked woman" -- Letters. Readings: Yasunari Kawabata: "Canaries"; Phil Karasik: "Mickey the dog phones home" -- Diary entries. Readings: Will Stanton: "Barney"; Mark Budman: "The diary of a salaryman" -- Lists. Readings: Sei Shonagon: "Annoying things"; Steve Martin: "Disgruntled former lexicographer" -- Fables. Readings: Anonymous: Untitled; Raphael Dagold: "The two rats and the BB gun" -- Anecdotes. Reading: The peasant and the genie -- Prose poems. Readings: Yusef Komunyakaa: "Nude interrogation"; Len Kuntz: "Story problems" -- Soliloquies, rants, riffs, and themes. Readings: Christine Byl: "Hey, Jess McCafferty"; John Edgar Wideman: "Witness" -- Perfect miniatures. Readings: John Collier: "The chaser"; Jeffrey Whitmore: "A bedtime story" -- Intermission: cutting down. Bruce Taylor: "Exercise" -- Surrealism. Readings: Richard Brautigan: "A need for gardens"; Donald Barthelme: "The baby" -- What if? Readings: Wayland Hilton-Young: "The choice"; Dicky Murphy: "The magician's umbrella" -- Genre. Readings: Roxane Gay: "The mistress of baby breath"; Tara Orchard: "My love" -- Setting. Readings: Bharati Mukherjee: "Courtly vision"; Alice Walker: "The flowers" -- Twists. Readings: Luisa Valenzuela: "Vision out of the corner of one eye"; Saki: "The open window" -- Viewpoints. Readings: Robert Schipits: "Dialogue between two teenagers, one interested in cars and one not"; Ryan Ridge: "Shaky hands & all" -- Mass compression. Readings: Bruce Holland Rogers: "Dinosaur"; Susan O'Neill: "Memento mori" -- Metafiction. Readings: Ptim Callan: "Story"; Jorge Luis Borges: "Borges and I" -- Vanishing point. Readings: Merilee Faber: "We came around the corner"; Dean Clayton Edwards: "It was pretending"; Davian Aw: "She raised the glass"; Augusto Monterroso: "The dinosaur" -- The future -- Conclusion.
650		0	_aFlash fiction _xAuthorship.
650		0	_aFlash fiction _xTechnique.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aGalef, David, author. _tBrevity _dNew York : Columbia University Press, 2016 _z9780231543132 _w(DLC) 2016032149
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