by 4thgenre | Jun 1, 2023 | Multimedia
Chthonic Finalist of the 2022 Fourth Genre Multimedia Essay Prize Author’s note: Click here to experience Daniel’s immersive, experiential essay. If you would like to read the text in a more conventional format, it is transcribed below. Can you remember...
by 4thgenre | Jun 1, 2023 | Multimedia
What Can’t Be Explained Through Pictograms or How the Voices of Korean Birth Mothers Become the Voices in my Head Finalist of the 2022 Fourth Genre Multimedia Essay Prize 1. I was raised in the church, taughta woman’s worth was how she guardedher heart, her...
by 4thgenre | Dec 8, 2022 | Interview
Essaying Is Questioning A Jill and Jill Conversation If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in EssaysBy Jill Christman228 pp. University of Nebraska Press, $21.95Released September 2022 When I first read Jill Christman’s memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, eight years...
by 4thgenre | Aug 19, 2022 | Review
Glorious, Golden, and Contemporary On Phillip Lopate’s New Anthologies of the American Essay The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the PresentEdited by Phillip Lopate928 pp. Anchor, $20.00Released November 2020 The Golden Age of...
by 4thgenre | Aug 11, 2022 | Craft Essay
The Fault Lines of Memory Embracing Imperfect Memory in Creative Nonfiction “Memory is imagination, and imagination is memory. I don’t think we remember the past, we imagine it. We take a few props with us into the future, and out of those props we make a model, some...
