Ander monson essays

Ander monson university of arizona
The Gnome Stories · I Will Take the Answer · Letter to a Future Lover · Vanishing Point · The Available World · Neck Deep and Other Predicaments.
Ander Monson is the author of nine books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, most recently Predator: a Memoir, A Movie, an Obsession, (Graywolf, 2022).

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Ander Monson

Born

Houghton, MI

Website

http://otherelectricities.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Nonfiction, Contemporary, Fiction

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Ander Monson is the author of Vanishing Point; Neck Deep and Other Predicaments, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize; the novel Other Electricities; and the poetry collections Vacationland and The Available World. He lives and teaches in Arizona and edits the magazine DIAGRAM.

Although Ander is a proud graduate of Knox College, he also received advanced degrees from Iowa State and the University of Alabama.

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http://poetry.arizona.edu/presenter-a...Ander Monson is the author of Vanishing Point; Neck Deep and Other Predicaments, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize; the novel Other Electricities; and the poetry collections Vacationland and The Available World. He lives and teaches in Arizona and edits the magazine DIAGRAM.

Although Ander is a proud graduate of Knox College, he also received advanced degrees from Iowa State and the University of Alabama.

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Like usual, aboutness is nothing but trouble. What's your book about, people ask me. It's a fair question. It's social. It's a start. It's nonfiction, so it should be about something aside from itself. Sure, it's art, so it should not mean as much as be. But even fiction is about something. Something started it. Something animates it. There is a text and a subtext. The book is about memoir, and it's about me, and it's about you, because it's about us. Anything we do or read or think about is about us. Even if it's not about me, it's about me, meaning that at least it is shaped by me and holds my trace. Writing about Doritos, which I do gladly and with fervor, makes this about me. If I wrote journalism the positions of quotations, the angle of the story, who gets interviewed, who gets to speak, who gets to rebut, or get portrayed as a crackpot, how the elements of the world are seen and presented--all of these things hold a trace of brain. They stink of it. They're not supposed to (that's the fiction of journalism), but they do. We read air-quote 'objective' p

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Ander Monson

Ander Monson is the author of nine books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, most recently Predator: a Memoir, A Movie, an Obsession, (Graywolf, 2022). A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award and the New York Public Library Young Lions award, he is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in General Nonfiction, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers award in Nonfiction, the Graywolf Prize in Nonfiction, the Annie Dillard prize in Creative Nonfiction, and a John C Zacharis prize from Ploughshares. His story, “To Reduce Your Likelihood of Murder,” won the World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest, and his work has been anthologized multiple times in the Best American Essays. He’s received fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the editor and publisher of the journal DIAGRAM and the New Michigan Press, the founder and editor of the organizations Essay Daily, The Assessment Matters Institute for Assessment Matteration, and the Ma