Synopses & Reviews
“Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch.”—John D’Agata
“Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without ‘complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.’ Jenny Boully has done it.”—Mary Jo Bang
A book with only beginnings and endings, all invented. Jenny Boully opens and closes more than fifty topics ranging from physics and astronomy to literary theory and love. A brilliant statement on interruption, impermanence, and imperfection.
Jenny Boully is the author of The Body: An Essayand [one love affair]*. Born in Thailand, she currently divides her time between Texas and Brooklyn.
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"I do not know of a single essayist working right now who can match Jenny's drive for innovation in nonfiction, her keen sense of form, her playful use of the genre's conventions, and her vigorously subversive engagement with a heritage that she simultaneously seems deeply in love with. Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch." John D'Agata
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It is an eloquent shoring up of fragments, a potentially infinite poem. The binding is neither genre nor gender but eros itself, both of the physical variety and the type that caresses the noun and its attendants. Anne Carson comes to mind." C. D. Wright
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"Boully's work combines the unapologetically romantic with the quirky factoids of contemporary life (star charts and decoder rings; orchids and eggs over-easy). She uses form in a way that undercuts our every expectation based on previous encounters with prose." Mary Jo Bang
Synopsis
-Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch.---John D'Agata
-Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without 'complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.' Jenny Boully has done it.---Mary Jo Bang
A book with only beginnings and endings, all invented. Jenny Boully opens and closes more than fifty topics ranging from physics and astronomy to literary theory and love. A brilliant statement on interruption, impermanence, and imperfection.
Jenny Boully is the author of The Body: An Essayand one love affair]*. Born in Thailand, she currently divides her time between Texas and Brooklyn.
Synopsis
A book with only beginnings and endings, all invented. Jenny Boully opens and closes more than fifty topics ranging from physics and astronomy to literary theory and love. A brilliant statement on interruption, impermanence, and imperfection.
Synopsis
The third collection from this thrillingly innovative master of the lyric essay.
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How does the story begin? How does it end? This is what The Book of Beginnings and Endings will tell you, but nothing more. The middle — with its arguments, segues, denouement — isn't there. These are beginnings that wave goodbye with the door flung wide open, endings that open in medias res. Throwing her voice in a feat of lyrical ventriloquism, Jenny Boully tunes into every station to open or close more than fifty books ranging in subject matter from physics and astronomy to literary theory and love.
About the Author
Boully is the author of The Body and one love affair*. Born in Thailand, she studied at Hollins University and the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD Candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She divides her time between Brooklyn and Texas.