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Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life
By Jenny Boully
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“Powerful” essays exploring the experience of the writer—and the nature of experience itself (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).
Shortlisted for the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Award in Nonfiction
Jenny Boully’s essays are ripe with romance and sensual pleasures, drawing connections between the digression, reflection, imagination, and experience that characterize falling in love as well as the life of a writer. Literary theory, philosophy, and linguistics rub up against memory, dreamscapes, and fancy—making the practice of writing a metaphor for the illusory nature of experience. Betwixt-and-Between is, in many ways, simply a book about how to live.
“[Boully’s] prose is reminiscent of Lydia Davis’—spare, elliptical, unexpected—and sometimes, in her rhythmic cadences, of Gertrude Stein’s . . . Graceful meditations on love, loneliness, and the magic of words.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Jenny Boully is a deeply weird writer—in the best way.” —Ander Monson
Shortlisted for the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Award in Nonfiction
Jenny Boully’s essays are ripe with romance and sensual pleasures, drawing connections between the digression, reflection, imagination, and experience that characterize falling in love as well as the life of a writer. Literary theory, philosophy, and linguistics rub up against memory, dreamscapes, and fancy—making the practice of writing a metaphor for the illusory nature of experience. Betwixt-and-Between is, in many ways, simply a book about how to live.
“[Boully’s] prose is reminiscent of Lydia Davis’—spare, elliptical, unexpected—and sometimes, in her rhythmic cadences, of Gertrude Stein’s . . . Graceful meditations on love, loneliness, and the magic of words.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Jenny Boully is a deeply weird writer—in the best way.” —Ander Monson
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life from Jenny Boully is that wonderful collection of essays that fulfills the promise of the word 'collection.' So often collections of essays are collections only in the sense that the essays have, indeed, been collected into one volume. Many times this is quite sufficient. Yet here collection is to be taken as a single entity with various parts, not simply a collection of parts. This volume is a whole, comprised of essays, collected into a volume.The writing itself is remarkable. I enjoy essays and many make me think, and many make me feel. These make me think and feel, then think about those feelings. By the end I had come to "know" Boully, at least to the extent she allows in this book. And it certainly seems at times to be intimate. The beauty is that the intimacy appears, to me, to be for both her benefit as well as ours. She may have reaped many of the rewards when she first wrote the essays but we are reaping our rewards now, and likely again when we reread them (which I have every intention of doing).This is not just about the writing life in the sense of what it is like to be a writer, but also about writing life, which is a type of writing we all do. It is in this relationship that we as readers gain the most insight. Boully wrote her life into her writing, whether explicitly or implicitly. This is not uncommon among writers, even those who are less fully aware of it. Yet the process of writing also helped to make her life what it was and is. We all do the same things. We write our lives, as in what has already passed. In writing the past part of our lives we influence how we will write the remainder of our lives.I would highly recommend this to readers of personal essays as well as writers.Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via Edelweiss.