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...
by 4thgenre | Aug 5, 2022 | Review
The Ways We Remain A Review of the late Ned Stuckey-French’s essays One by One, The StarsBy Ned Stuckey-French217 pp. University of Georgia Press, $24.95Released May 2022 The last book review I wrote was one my late friend Ned Stuckey-French assigned to me, in...
by 4thgenre | Jul 5, 2022 | Multimedia
Drawing the Mall Winner of the 2021 Fourth Genre Multimedia Essay Prize Here’s what our judge, Kristen Radke, had to say about this year’s winner: “Drawing The Mall” is a slightly-deranged, entirely-beautiful love letter to an American institution that ‘has...
by 4thgenre | May 28, 2022 | Craft Essay
A Dash of Dash The Lyric Art of Punctuation With Apologies to Noah Lukeman Before evolving to mark syntax for you, silent reader—hearing these lines in your head, perhaps in a version of your own voice, or perhaps one you’ve invented to suit me (how do I sound to...
