Selected Misdemeanors

Essays at the Mercy of the Reader

Sue William Silverman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2025
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-4422-2 (ISBN)

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The essays in Selected Misdemeanors are unapologetic word grenades lobbed into an otherwise complacent forgetfulness. Throughout the collection, Sue William Silverman focuses on pivotal, often fleeting moments that defined the course of her life, such as a fraught family vacation; an evening watching the Chippendale dancers’ extravaganza; a Pac-Man-and-whisky-fueled rumination on failed relationships; and the way melodramatic movies such as Rome Adventure shape an adolescent’s idea of love. Ranging from short to flash to micro length, these emotionally courageous writings imbue minimalist forms with maximalist emotions and an unrepentant, no-holds-barred attitude. Each action explored in this collection produces the Butterfly Effect-seemingly quotidian events rippling into emotional tsunamis.

Sue William Silverman is an award-winning memoirist, essayist, and poet of eight previous books, including How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences (Nebraska, 2020) and Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul (Nebraska, 2024). She is co-chair of the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Author’s Note
Part 1. Strange Entanglements
At the Apollo Theatre
Coming Attractions
Child Care
On Understanding Time for the First Time
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time When She Was Forced to Hold the Crayon . . .
Scratching the Surface
Time Travel for Beginners
Postcard: The Berkshires
A Treatise on Dark Matter(s)
Learning the Antimatter of What Matters
Retainer
Postcard: Monhegan Island, Maine
Harbor Lights
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time in Puerto Rico . . .
7-Up as a Cure for Irony
The Silence Detector
My Russian Heritage
Drinks for All Occasions
Snow on Cherries
Love Deferment
Miss Demeanor Considers the First of Many Jobs . . .
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Lived in a Room . . .
Respect, Almost
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Posed as an Israeli . . .
Manilow Fidelity
Carry On
Part 2. How To and How Not
Library with Hyacinth, Girl, and Guns
How To
How to Find a Snow Leopard in Georgia
Negative Capabilities
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Hid . . .
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Was Married . . .
Mug Shots with Fellow Fugitives
The Poetic Sentence
Missing the Clues
On Liminality
Exchange Rates
Remembrance of Things Past
The Long Road Out of Eden
Postcard: Greetings from Atlantic City!
The Undertaking
Reflections on Blue Velvet
The Family Chiroptera
The Soft Beauty of an Ordinary Life
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Stood under the Boardwalk . . .
Trashy
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time between Hippiedom and Adulthood . . .
Degas Paints the Chippendales and Me
Part 3. Grieflets
Too
Grieflets
Psych Ward, Drought
Expiration Date
Against Ruin
Emerald Isle
Al Di LÀ
Into the Wild of the Calm
The Lost Art of the Near Tilt
The Origin of Her Superpowers
Miss Demeanor Must Consider, Whether She Wants to or Not . . .
Miss Demeanor Must Also Consider the Time Her Father . . .
Tinea Capitis
A Grand Unified Theory of Disease
Organ Music
Dyscalculia
Postcard: The Big Apple!
Postcard: New York City
Xeroxing Christie
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Got Her First Author Photo . . .
Miss Demeanor Considers Her Desk (Messy Like Her Life) . . .
The Memory Box
Seeking Paradise on the Road to Nowhere
Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2025
Zusatzinfo	13 photographs
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4962-4422-2 / 1496244222
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-4422-2 / 9781496244222
Zustand	Neuware