{"product_id":"9781566895101","title":"Betwixt-And-Between: Essays on the Writing Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch.” —John D’Agata\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without ‘complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.’ Jenny Boully has done it.” —Mary Jo Bang\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jenny Boully is a deeply weird writer—in the best way.” —Ander Monson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJenny Boully’s essays are ripe with romance and sensual pleasures, drawing connections between the digression, reflection, imagination, and experience that characterizes 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. \u003cem\u003eBetwixt and\u003cbr\u003eBetween\u003c\/em\u003e is, in many ways, simply a book about how to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJenny Boully \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Body: An Essay\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Beginnings and Endings: Essays\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003enot merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them\u003c\/em\u003e, and other books. Born in Thailand, she grew up in Texas and holds a PhD in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She teaches creative writing and literature at Columbia College Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050337943792,"sku":"9781566895101","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566895101_p0.jpg?v=1769899951","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566895101","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}