Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction

The best of short literary memoirs, essays, and reflections, many of which were written expressly for this collection. Also available

The late Judith Kitchen, editor of the perennially popular anthologies Short Takes, In Short, and In Brief, was greatly influential in recognizing and establishing flash creative nonfiction as a form in its own right. In Brief Encounters, she and writer/editor/actor Dinah Lenney expand this vibrant field with nearly eighty new selections: shorts―as these sharply focused pieces have come to be known― representing an impressive range of voices, perspectives, sensibilities, and forms. Brief Encounters features the work of the emerging and the established―including Stuart Dybek, Roxanne Gay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Jamison, and Julian Barnes―arranged by theme to explore the human condition in ways intimate, idiosyncratic, funny, sad, provocative, lyrical, unflinching. From the rant to the rave, the meditation to the polemic, the confession to the valediction, this collection of shorts―this celebration of true and vivid prose―will enlarge your world.

• Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World
• Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
• They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
• The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
• Tell It Slant, Second Edition
• What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
• The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes
• Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction
• The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers
• In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal