edited volume, 276pp
University of Nebraska Press, 2018
An anthology of intriguing lyric essays that borrow their forms from ordinary, everyday sources: a recipe, a crossword puzzle, a Craig’s List ad... Edited and with an introduction by Kim Adrian, this selection of beautifully written, thought-provoking essays has become a classic reference in the increasingly popular genre affectionally known as "hermit crab essays."
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“The Shell Game pushes the boundaries of prose and opens up a whole new world. . . . It makes readers feel as if they are learning what an essay is (or could be) all over again.” —New Pages
“The essays in this collection bring with them a sense of hope about literature and its capacity for evolution and change.”
—The Millions
“Kim Adrian’s introduction demonstrates the potential and beauty of the hermit crab approach as she lays out the history of the metaphor using kingdom, phyla, species, etc., to identify the literary heritage and taxonomy of the hermit crab essay itself. . . . Her introduction, as lyrical as it is, is often laugh-out-loud funny.”
—Literary Journalism Studies
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