This Wide Terraqueous World Essays In Fiction Laird Hunt by Laird Hunt 9781566896689, 1566896681, 2022039200, 2022039201 instant download after payment.

“Deliberately digressive personal essays on the intersection of art, history, & happenstance. . . . [Hunt] writes with a poetic sensibility, letting the metaphorical meaning & depth of his observations arise naturally out of his prose without laboring to extract them.” — Kirkus

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Haunting essays from acclaimed author Laird Hunt balance intimate remembrance with an examination of the writing life. 

In this new collection of nonfiction from the celebrated author of Zorrie, Laird Hunt uses fiction as an inspiration, a tool, even an obsession, employing its methods to get to the heart of experience. The “sizzling” work of Jane Bowles colors his wanderings through Palermo, while a London museum trip provokes a consideration of taxidermy’s storytelling potential, & fairytales blend with echoes of W. G. Sebald, Willa Cather, & László Krasznahorkai. From intrigue at the United Nations to a broken-down car in Kansas, from the history of denim to the dangerous games of childhood, This Wide Terraqueous World leads readers down the winding paths of memory as Hunt examines his subjects in razor-sharp prose both eerily spare & richly evocative.

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Laird Hunt is the author of Zorrie, which was a 2021 finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. He has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction & won the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, & Italy’s Bridge Prize. His reviews & essays have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, & many others. He teaches in the Department of Literary Arts at Brown University & lives in Providence.