To Limit Is to Define: A Review of Mario Aquilina’s New Anthology By Jasmine Bajada The Essay at the Limits: Poetics, Politics, and FormEdited by Mario Aquilina264 pp. London: Bloomsbury Academic, $115.00 If, as Oscar Wilde’s aphorism goes, to define is to limit, then it follows that every definition of this elusive genre, …
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A Full Embrace of the Wandering Mind: Rick Bailey’s Essays A Review by Rachel Rueckert Get Thee to a Bakery: EssaysBy Rick Bailey228 pp. University of Nebraska Press, $19.95 I’ve often heard that a good writer can write about anything and make it interesting for a reader. Anything? If this …
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Watch This By Jason Sepac A finalist of the 2021 Fourth Genre Multimedia Essay Prize If you’re reading on a laptop or desktop computer, click here. Jason Sepac Jay is a writer from Pittsburgh, PA. His visual essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, Kenyon Review Online, and The Rumpus. He is currently an MFA candidate in nonfiction at Oregon State …
Drawing the Mall By Brian Kearney Winner of the 2021 Fourth Genre Multimedia Essay Prize Here’s what our judge, Kristen Radke, had to say about it: “Drawing The Mall” is a slightly-deranged, entirely-beautiful love letter to an American institution that ‘has seasons but it has no weather.’ I’ll genuinely never look at a food court the …
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Autofiction: A Visual Essay By Frances Cannon A finalist of the 2021 Fourth Genre Multimedia Essay Prize Frances Cannon Frances Cannon is the Managing Director of Sundog Poetry, as well as a writer, artist, and instructor, currently teaching creative writing and literature courses at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and art and English courses at the …
