Blurring the Boundaries: Explorations to the Fringes of Nonfiction

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments This book would not have been possible without the support of a number of editors, agents, and permissions folks, including Kristen Rowley, Jodi Hammerwold, Matt McGowan, and Frederick T. Courtright. Likewise, I am indebted to many presses as well, first and foremost the University of Nebraska Press for allowing me the opportunity to piece this project together, but also Graywolf Press, Counterpoint Press, and New Directions, all of which allowed me to further share their writers’ works with the world. Also, a thank you to my colleagues at both the University of Alabama and the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire—your support has proved invaluable. A special and heartfelt thank you to the writers showcased herein, all of whom worked diligently to blur the boundaries of genre by taking all the right risks. And to the readers as well, may you carve out your own fresh terrain. And finally, to my wife, who put up with my constant yammering about my own boundless enthusiasm for this work. I hope you feel the same. “The Eighteenth Week” was originally published in Passages North 31.1 (2010): 79–82. “Time and Distance Overcome” was originally published in Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays. © 2009 by Eula Biss. “On ‘Time and Distance Overcome’: The Rewards of Research” © 2013 by Eula Biss. “An Essay and a Story about Mötley Crüe” was originally published in Opium (2009). © 2009 by Ryan Boudinot. “On ‘An Essay and a Story about Mötley Crüe’: Knowing One’s Audience and Making Your Dreams Come True” © 2013 by Ryan Boudinot. “Thirty Minutes to the End: An Essay to My Aunt Judy on the Occasion of the May 4, 2007, Tornado” was originally published in The Day After the Day After. © 2010 by Steven Church. Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint. “Bait” was originally published in TriQuarterly, no. 131 (2008). © 2008 by Stuart Dybek. “On ‘Bait’: The Hybridity of Form” © 2013 by Stuart Dybek. “Flagpole Wedding, Coshocton, Ohio, 1946: An Essay on Process” and “On ‘Flagpole Wedding, Coshocton, Ohio, 1946: An Essay on Process’: Transitioning from Notes to Novel” © 2013 by Robin Hemley. “Whistling in the Dark” was originally published in Black Warrior Review 35.2 (2009): 62–72. © 2009 by Naomi Kimbell. “On ‘Whistling in the Dark’: When Telling Lies Reveals Truth” © 2013 by Naomi Kimbell. In “71 Fragments for a Chronology of Possibility”: “The Red Wheelbarrow ” by William Carlos Williams, from The Collected Poems, vol. 1, 1909–1939. © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. “Headaches” and “On ‘Headaches’: Articulating the Inexplicable”© 2013 by Paul Maliszewski. “Outline toward a Theory of the Mine versus the Mind and the Harvard Outline” was originally published in Neck Deep and Other Predicaments . © 2007 by Ander Monson. Reprinted with the permission of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org. “Outline toward a Reflection on the Outline and the Splitting of the Atom, I Mean the Colorado River, I Mean Our Collective Attentions, or Maybe I Mean the Brain, Which Is Mostly Forks, You Know” © 2013 by Ander Monson. x acknowledgments blurring the boundaries ...