The History of the Future
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2017
Coffee House Press (Verlag)
978-1-56689-467-8 (ISBN)
Coffee House Press (Verlag)
978-1-56689-467-8 (ISBN)
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A collection of long essays centered on American places where the past is erupting into the present in unexpected ways.
McPherson's strength is in narrative journalism, and he's always present in these essays, making their exploration of science, history, and environmental devastation feel personal, not clinical. Each is definitively about something (this is not memoir couched in place-writing), but McPherson is your very companionable, and very curious guide. It's his interest that drives the story.
Though many of these have been previously published, the collection moves as a whole, with each new exploration pushing us further to question America's history, its sense of itself, and its future
Edward worked in magazines in NY for many years, and has a strikingly broad array of contacts. His savvy about how media works, and his personal connection to many of the people we'd pitch his book to, should make getting coverage for these essays much easier.
Pop culture weaves its way through the essays, and McPherson's ability to look sideways at stories we think we already know, to integrate "who shot JFK" with "who shot JR" in a meaningful, revealing way, makes the book timely, a pleasure to read, and a vehicle for reconsidering our past, and what that means for our future.
McPherson's strength is in narrative journalism, and he's always present in these essays, making their exploration of science, history, and environmental devastation feel personal, not clinical. Each is definitively about something (this is not memoir couched in place-writing), but McPherson is your very companionable, and very curious guide. It's his interest that drives the story.
Though many of these have been previously published, the collection moves as a whole, with each new exploration pushing us further to question America's history, its sense of itself, and its future
Edward worked in magazines in NY for many years, and has a strikingly broad array of contacts. His savvy about how media works, and his personal connection to many of the people we'd pitch his book to, should make getting coverage for these essays much easier.
Pop culture weaves its way through the essays, and McPherson's ability to look sideways at stories we think we already know, to integrate "who shot JFK" with "who shot JR" in a meaningful, revealing way, makes the book timely, a pleasure to read, and a vehicle for reconsidering our past, and what that means for our future.
Edward McPherson is the author of two previous books: Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat (Faber & Faber) and The Backwash Squeeze and Other Improbable Feats (HarperCollins). He has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Paris Review, Tin House, and the American Scholar, among others. He has received a Pushcart Prize, the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction, a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, and the Gesell Award from the University of Minnesota, where he received his MFA. He teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.08.2017 |
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| Verlagsort | MN |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 397 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
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| ISBN-10 | 1-56689-467-0 / 1566894670 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-56689-467-8 / 9781566894678 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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