Snapshots
An Album of Essay and Image
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:6th Feb '25
£20.00
This title is due to be published on 6th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Featuring micro-essays inspired by a photograph from their personal archives, this collection offers a snapshot into the lives and interests of a diverse group of writers exploring the relationship between image and word.
If pictures are worth a thousand words, what kinds of words might they inspire? What stories would they tell and would they be joyful or sad, elegant or savage?
Snapshots features 36 such meditations from a diverse group of writers, each of whom draws on a photograph from their personal archive to inspire a short essay.
Intimate and powerful, these reflections exhibit a range of sensibilities and experiences, offering unique insight into the lives and interests of both established and emerging authors. Expressing a dynamic array of styles, relationships, landscapes, and preoccupations, Snapshots is an album for our life and times.
The book includes pieces from the writers below:
- Emilie Pascale Beck - Suzanne Berne - Aimee Bender - Sven Birkerts - Kate Carroll De Gutes - Stuart Dybek - Alex Espinoza - Lynell George - Amy Gerstler - Tod Goldberg - Hannah Howard - Vanessa Hua - Pico Iyer - Wayne Koestenbaum - Major Jackson - Leslie Jamison - Dinah Lenney - Alex Marzano-Lesnevich - Aimee Liu - Sonja Livingston - Attica Locke - Dinty W. Moore - Mara Naselli - Naomi Shihab Nye - Ivy Pochoda - Adriana E. Ramirez - Sejal Shah - Brandon Shimoda - Jessica Silvester - Aisha Sabatini Sloan - Susan Straight - Grace Talusan - Abigail Thomas - Clifford Thompson - David L. Ulin - Diana Wagman
The authors of the resonant essays in Dinah Lenney’s beautifully edited anthology explore the poignant mysteries embedded in even the most unassuming snapshot, reminding us that, while a photograph is a record of a vanished moment, it is also alive to the ongoing evolution of memory and self-knowledge. * Marisa Silver, author of The Mysteries and Mary Coin *
Snapshots gets at the complexity of ekphrastic writing in our contemporary moment – highlighting the ways in which a photograph still prompts intellectual interrogation, and revealing the intricacies of creating literary work through the careful exploration of an image. * Rachel M. Hanson, author of The End of Tennessee: A Memoir *
Snapshots embodies the best version of ekphrasis: the images catapult the writers’ imaginations, drawing from one art form, transforming it into another, then offering it to the reader to keep the conversation going. This collection speaks from art, through pages, with words so inviting you could listen for days on end. * Nicole Walker, author of Processed Meat: Essays on Food, Flesh, and Navigating Disaster *
ISBN: 9781350397057
Dimensions: unknown
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168 pages