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Jill Talbot

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Jill Talbot is the author of The Last Year: Essays, Winner of the Wandering Aengus Press Editor's Award, The Way We Weren’t: A Memoir (Soft Skull) and a collection of personal essays, Loaded: Women and Addiction (Seal Press). She's the editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction (Iowa). Her writing has appeared in journals such as AGNI, Brevity, Colorado Review, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Lit Mag, and The Rumpus. A Distant Town: Stories, winner of the 2020-2021 Jeanne Leiby Award, is available from The Florida Review Press. ...more

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	The Best of Brevity: Twenty Years of Groundbreaking Flash Nonfiction by Zoë Bossiere (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dinty W. Moore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brenda Miller (Contributor) 4.30 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way We Weren't 4.14 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loaded: Women and Addiction 3.54 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Friction: Where (Non)Fictions Come Together by Charles Blackstone (Goodreads Author), Jill Talbot (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bring the Noise: The Best Pop Culture Essays from Barrelhouse Magazine by Tom McAllister (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sarah Sweeney (Goodreads Author), Louisa Spaventa 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Year 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Full Grown People: Greatest Hits, Volume One by Jennifer Niesslein (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marcia Aldrich (Goodreads Author), Shaun Stallings Anzaldua 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Distant Town: Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way We Weren't by Talbot, Jill(July 14, 2015) Paperback 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I think language beautifully full of the poetry of immanent clarification of some small pinprick of what living might mean. Fuck. Why else would anyone care to spend a life writing sentences?”
― Jill Talbot, Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction

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“A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.”
― Jill Talbot, Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction

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“What would she have thought as a teenage girl arranging her artfully wasted limbs against the dais of a highly conceptual sculpture?”
― Jill Talbot, Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction

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