?Judith Kitchen has written a book that is at once clear and accessible and at the same time insistently complex. Her effortlessly constructed hybrids make Half in Shade part memoir, part speculation,
What if Molly took center stage in James Joyce's Ulysses? What if she lived in suburban America? The House on Eccles RoadIt is June 16, 1999, in Dublin, Ohio, and Molly wanders through her empty day w
"The voice in these prose essays is window-pane clear, but with the power of sun through a magnifying glass. . . . This book is a treasurehouse."—Maxine KuminLyrical, affecting, and blended with
The co-editor of In Short and In Brief presents short writings by seventy-five authors whose styles demonstrate the myriad ways that people tell the truth, in a collection that includes pieces by such
In their previous collection Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones coined the term "short" for those creative nonfiction pieces -- literary rather than informational, and characteristically short --
What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published inThe Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year span. Coming at the genre from every possible angle, thi
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
Poetry. "Ted Kooser was moving all his books from his shed to his new library, and in the process he was dipping into them. 'I've been coming up with a list of good bird poems,' he e-mailed. 'Can you
