Bone of the bone [large print] : essays on America by a daughter of the working class

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Author:

Smarsh, Sarah, author.

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publication Date:

2025

2024

Publication Information:

[Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2025.

Physical Description:

499 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

ISBN:

9781420520750

Abstract:

"Sarah Smarsh has long focused on cultural dissonance that many in her industry neglected until recently. Now, thought-provoking collection of more than thirty of her previously published essays from the past decade demonstrates a life and a career steeped in the issues that affect our collective future. Bone of the Bone is a singular work covering one of the most tumultuous decades in civic life. Timely, filled with perspective-shifting observations, and a pleasure to read, Sarah Smarsh's essays are an important addition to any discussion on contemporary America"-- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction -- How I moved twenty one times before college (Parcel, 2013) -- Highway construction may unearth human remains (The Huffington Post, 2013) -- Dear daughter, your mom (The Morning News, 2014) -- Freedom mandate (Guernica, 2014) -- Poor teeth (Aeon, 2014) -- Lede, nutgraph, and body (Aeon, 2015) -- Poverty, pride, and prejudice (NewYorker.com, 2015) -- Linguistic notice for Homo Sapiens heretofore known as "pussies" and "little bitches" (McSweeney's, 2015) -- Believe it (Creative Nonfiction, 2015) -- The first person on Mars (Vela, 2015) -- The new migrants (Texas Observer, 2016) -- The wind doesn't stop at customs (On Being, 2016) -- Dangerous idiots (The Guardian, 2016) -- The jump (Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living, 2017) -- Blood brother (Tales of Two Americas, Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, 2017/VQR, 2017) -- The uprising of women in "red states" is just beginning (The Cut, 2018) -- The winter wheat I helped raise (Pacific Standard, 2018) -- Writing assignment (The Guardian, 2018) -- Liberal blind spots are hiding the truth (The New York Times, 2018) -- At the precise geographic heart of the dark-money beast (The Guardian, 2018) -- Blue wave in Kansas (The New York Times, 2018) -- Brain gain (The New York Times, 2019) -- Chronicling a community, and a country, in economic crisis (The New York Times, 2020) -- I am burning with fury and grief (The New York Times, 2020) -- In defense of populism (Columbia Journalism Review, 2020) -- How is arguing with Trump voters working out for you? (The Guardian, 2020) -- Rural route (NationalGeographic.com, 2020) -- Revision (The New Territory, 2021) -- Extraction (The Atlantic, 2021) -- What to do with our Covid rage (The New York Times, 2021) -- In celebration of rare and exquisite accuracy from Hollywood (The Guardian, 2022) -- Shelterbelt (The New York Times, 2022) -- In the running (Harper's, 2022) -- For my lover (Oxford American, 2022) -- The butchering shed (The New York Times, 2022) -- Unwanted gifts (2024) -- Note on original publications.

Personal Subject:

Smarsh, Sarah.

Subject Term:

Large type books.

Working class -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

Working class -- United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.

Working class -- Social conditions.

Working class -- Economic conditions.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Civilization -- 21st century.

Genre:

Large print books.