The Shell Game: Writers Play With Borrowed Forms

Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls ""hermit crab essays"". The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays that borrow their structures from ordinary, everyday sources: a recipe, a crossword puzzle, a Craig's List ad.

• | Edited By: Kim Adrian
• | Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2018
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 276 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0803296762
• | ISBN-13: 9780803296763