A Braided Heart

Author : Brenda Lynn Miller
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472054929
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Braided Heart written by Brenda Lynn Miller and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and personable guide to writing creative nonfiction

Author : Brenda Lynn Miller
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472129104
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Braided Heart written by Brenda Lynn Miller and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Braided Heart provides a friendly, personal, and smart guide to the writing life. It also offers clear and original instruction on craft elements at the forefront of today’s emerging forms in creative nonfiction: from the short-short, to the braided form, to the hermit crab essay. An acknowledged expert in these forms, Brenda Miller gives writers practical advice on how to sustain and invigorate their writing practice, while also encouraging readers to explore their own writing lives. “Brenda Miller writes so beautifully in these lyrical and ‘braided’ essays—personal meditations that take us deep into the miracle of writing itself. Her eye is always alert, her ear wonderfully tuned to the nuances of perception. The art of the essay is alive and well in her hands.” —Jay Parini, author of Borges and Me

Author : Anne Liu Kellor
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1647421748
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heart Radical written by Anne Liu Kellor and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanting to understand how her path is tied to her mother tongue, Anne, a young, multiracial American woman, travels through China, the country of her mother’s birth. Along the way, she tries on different roles—seeker, teacher, student, girlfriend, artist, and daughter—and continually asks herself: Why do I feel called to make this journey? Whether witnessing a Tibetan sky burial, teaching English at a university in Chengdu, visiting her grandmother in LA, or falling in love with a Chinese painter, Anne is always in pursuit of intimacy with others, even as she is all too aware of her silences and separation. For two years, she settles into a comfortable routine in her boyfriend’s apartment and regains fluency in Chinese, a language she spoke as a young child but has used less and less as an adult. Eventually, however, her desire to know herself in other ways surfaces again. She misses speaking English, she feels suffocated by urban, polluted China, and she starts to fall for another man. Ultimately, Anne realizes that to live her truth as a mixed-race, bilingual woman she must embrace all of her influences and layers. In a world that often wants us to choose a side or fit an ideal, she learns that she can both belong and not belong wherever she is, and that home is ultimately found within.

Author : Brenda Miller
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 1260454606
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tell It Slant, Third Edition written by Brenda Miller and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Two award-winning authors reveal everything you need to know to develop your own distinctive voice and craft compelling, creative nonfiction “Tell all the Truth but tell it Slant.” —Emily Dickinson With these words, Dickinson offers sound advice for nonfiction writers: Tell the truth but become more than mere transcribers of daily life. Since 2003, Tell It Slant has set the standard for creative nonfiction instruction, showing writers how to move beyond mere facts and, instead, make the most of their own “slant” on the world. This revised and updated third edition offers: • New and expanded chapters on writing about identity, maintaining a productive work/life balance, and navigating the publishing industry • An anthology with diverse pieces that range from traditional essay to the graphic memoir • Expanded discussion of contemporary and emerging literary forms • New “Try It” writing exercises throughout the book Whether planning a course or learning on your own, Tell It Slant provides everything you need to know to develop a distinctive voice and to craft compelling creative nonfiction. This book provides the basis for a complete education in nonfiction writing, wherever your classroom might be. “Tell It Slant is a valuable and comprehensive resource for nonfiction writers, filled with exhilarating examples, powerful exercises, and pure inspiration. Miller and Paola are gifted teachers and writers with endless wisdom to share and a lovely way of sharing it with struggling writers at every level.” —Dinty W. Moore, author of The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life

Author : Beth Ricanati, MD
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1631524429
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Braided written by Beth Ricanati, MD and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner in Women's Issues Nonfiction 2020 Eric Hoffer Award, Grand Prize Shortlist Finalist 2019 Wilbur Award, Nonfiction Winner 2018 Foreword INDIES Winner, Self-Help 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies, Finalist What if you could bake bread once a week, every week? What if the smell of fresh bread could turn your house into a home? And what if the act of making the bread—mixing and kneading, watching and waiting—could heal your heartache and your emptiness, your sense of being overwhelmed? It can. This is the surprise that physician-mother Beth Ricanati learned when she started baking challah: that simply stopping and baking bread was the best medicine she could prescribe for women in a fast-paced world.

Author : Brenda Miller
Publisher : Sarabande Books
ISBN 13 : 9781889330693
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Season of the Body written by Brenda Miller and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The body knows a language the mind never wholly masters." In this remarkable debut collectionessentially a memoir in essay formBrenda Miller creates an autobiography that locates her body as its central reference point. Single and unable to bear children of her own, Miller details a life in relationship to the extended human family, a journey that traverses realms physical, emotional, and spiritual. From her training in massage and reflexology, to her volunteer work in a hospitals infant ward, Miller remains a constant seeker and humble teacher. Raised in a suburban Jewish household in the sixties, Miller grows up to find herself sitting in meditation for hours at a time, both bemused and intrigued by Buddhist precepts. Or she engages in her own ironic brand of mindfulness while caring for two little girls or attending the birth of her godson. She brings us to Portugal, Syria, Israel, and the deserts of southern Utah, but these are no mere travelogues: they become, instead, maps by which to navigate the intricate maze of our lives. These personal essays vary from the lyric to the narrative to the humorous, but always we warm to Millers authentic voice as she explores personal joys and heartbreaks within a larger domain. Organically shaped, never forced, these award-winning essays arrive with the pleasant snap of physical detail and leave with unforgettable insights on birth, prayer, and human resilience. Nurturing, yet uncommonly honest, Season of the Body articulates the unspoken losses, the desires held deep in the mute chambers of the heart.

Author : Paula Shoyer
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584659491
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kosher Baker written by Paula Shoyer and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary bible of kosher baking breathes fresh life into parve desserts and breads

Author : Abby Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1612433391
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Braiding Handbook written by Abby Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate guide to gorgeously braided hair—from elegant wedding styles to fun weekend ’dos—from the founder of Twist Me Pretty. Hair braiding is getting hotter by the day, and the evolution of styles has grown as rapidly. The New Braiding Handbook offers you an impressive array of easy-to-re-create, beautiful, and versatile looks that are as appropriate for elegant formal events as they are practical for casual, everyday wear. With step-by-step photos and detailed instructions for creating trendy knots, chic twists, and playful plaits, The New Braiding Handbook teaches imaginative and intricate hairstyling like you’ve never seen before. Fifty looks to choose from guarantee a braid for every occasion (or no occasion at all). Along with amazing styles and easy-to-follow tutorials, there are also tons of tips for eliminating split ends, bulking up limp locks, growing out a short ’do, and getting a full, healthy, shiny head of hair straight from the pages of a magazine. Quickly master gorgeous new looks, including: Fabulous Fishtails Elegant Updos Beautiful Buns Classy Crowns Knockout Knots Head-Turning ’Tails “She is a true artist . . . This book has definitely helped me discover new styles I didn’t even know existed . . . the instructions are clear and the pics, beautiful and inspiring!” —Wine and Blue “The New Braiding Handbook is the perfect gift to encourage your nine-year-old girl to experiment with a world of sixty modern and stylish hairstyles. The book is loaded with hairstyles for every occasion.” —Toy Buzz

Author : Rasha Adly
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1649030479
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl with Braided Hair written by Rasha Adly and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC LITERARY TRANSLATION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION The lives of two women living centuries apart are connected by an enigmatic painting in this mesmerizing debut based on historical events Art historian, Yasmine, is restoring an unsigned portrait of a strikingly beautiful girl from the Napoleonic Era, when she discovers that the artist has embedded a lock of hair into the painting, something highly unusual. The mysterious painting came into the museum’s possession without record, and Yasmine becomes consumed by the secret concealed within this captivating work. Meanwhile, at the close of the French Campaign in Egypt, sixteen-year-old Zeinab, the daughter of a prominent sheikh, is drawn into French high society when Napoleon himself requests her presence. Enamored by the foreign customs of the Europeans, she finds herself on a dangerous path, one that may ostracize her from her family and culture. Seamlessly merging fiction with history, art, and politics, modern day Cairo with its opulent past, this compelling story of two women caught between worlds and entangled in matters of the heart launches an entrancing new literary voice.

Author : Julie Marie Wade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734816730
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telephone: Essays in Two Voices written by Julie Marie Wade and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. "TELEPHONE is, for me, a stellar example of what can be achieved in collaborative work where two voices figure out how to link connective threads that bring out the best in each of their words, images, and narrative flourishes. This is a real gift of a book, one I hope to keep learning from."--Hanif Abdurraqib "Miller and Wade's TELEPHONE is a polyphonic emergency. These divinely nostalgic and politely oracular essays,--are they essays? watch them essai,--pursue the maximum boundaries of genre, and there, in the peripheries, together, we reach into our pockets to read their decoded message: I love."--Lily Hoang "Wade and Miller's collaborative essay collection, TELEPHONE, stretches the possibilities of the form, creating a kind of thought puzzle that you're happy to never truly solve. Their voices bounce and blend, weave and bob, in a way that seems almost impossible and magical. TELEPHONE is a testament to the power of voice and the beauty of collaborative art."--Steven Church "TELEPHONE is unusual, thoughtful and compelling. The two voices together are clever, passionate, entertaining and intriguing. TELEPHONE pushes the boundaries and demonstrates the power and potential of the creative nonfiction genre."--Lee Gutkind "Miller and Wade's marvelous TELEPHONE takes the ordinary--cars, exercise, toys, sex--and elevates it to the extraordinary. Each subject is subjected to lyrical rendering and astonishing interpretation. TELEPHONE stuns us with its burnished music, its use of form, and its brilliant musings on seemingly quotidian subjects. In these twin-voiced essays is a celebration of narrative's thrall, but also a liberation blueprint that frees us from the tyranny of a single self, a single story."--James Allen Hall