Brandon R. Schrand is the author of The Enders Hotel: A Memoir (forthcoming University of Nebraska Press), which won the 2007 River Teeth Prize for Literary Nonfiction, and is a 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers summer selection. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Dallas Morning News, The Utne Reader, Tin House, Shenandoah, Colorado Review, Green Mountains Review, River Teeth, Ecotone, Oklahoma Review, Isotope, and numerous other publications. He has won the Wallace Stegner Prize, the 2006 Willard R. Espy Award, two Pushcart Prize Special Mentions, and his essay, The Enders Hotel, the title piece from his memoir, was a notable essay in the Best American Essays 2007. He lives in Moscow, Idaho with his wife and two chBrandon R. Schrand is the author of The Enders Hotel: A Memoir (forthcoming University of Nebraska Press), which won the 2007 River Teeth Prize for Literary Nonfiction, and is a 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers summer selection. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Dallas Morning News, The Utne Reader, Tin House, Shenandoah, Colorado Review, Green Mountains Review, River Teeth, Ecotone, Oklahoma Review, Isotope, and numerous other publications. He has won the Wallace Stegner Prize, the 2006 Willard R. Espy Award, two Pushcart Prize Special Mentions, and his essay, The Enders Hotel, the title piece from his memoir, was a notable essay in the Best American Essays 2007. He lives in Moscow, Idaho with his wife and two children where he coordinates the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Idaho. Visit him online at www.brandonrschrand.com.
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I'm an essay junky. I read them, I write them, and I study them. And Pat Madden is one of the greatest practioners of the genre, full-stop. His roving imagination and ever-expansive conception of the form leave me stunned time and again. Open DisparaI'm an essay junky. I read them, I write them, and I study them. And Pat Madden is one of the greatest practioners of the genre, full-stop. His roving imagination and ever-expansive conception of the form leave me stunned time and again. Open Disparates, and you will see a wonderland of intellectual wordscapes, a veritable almanac of the sacred and whimsical. This collection hits on all cylinders and should be required reading for anyone who wants to see the elasticity of the essay form on full display....more
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