LEADER 03927nam 2200589 450 001 9910789296003321 005 20230803201935.0 010 $a0-8203-4703-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000093218 035 $a(EBL)1653226 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001132741 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11744374 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132741 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11154853 035 $a(PQKB)11130171 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1653226 035 $a(OCoLC)873936517 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35181 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1653226 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10849482 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL582543 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000093218 100 $a20131223h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPirates you don't know, and other adventures in the examined life $ecollected essays /$fJohn Griswold 210 1$aAthens :$cUniversity of Georgia Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (223 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8203-4678-0 327 $aCover; Contents; Acknowledgments; The Pirate's Waltz; Unemployed, in Greenland?; The Art of War; The Expulsion of Oronte Churm; Tenacity; Crocodiles; Killing Pirates; I Didn't Know; The Unknown; Desire; Confessions; Time Monkeys; Quid Pro Quo, Dr. Lecter; Show, Don't Tell; Creative Writing in the Academy; Letter to a Former Student Now Graduated; You Shall Know Them by Their Music; Hardheads; Seeing; Microgeographies; Geedunk and Geegaws; Move-In Blues; The Recipe in the Writing Class; A Remembrance of Gravies Past; Being Mistaken for Bookish 327 $aNotes for an Essay on Race and Class in a University TownLooking for Writers Beyond Their Work; Where Your Standardized Testing Money Goes; The Unlikelihood of Fathers; The College of Hard Knocks; Languor; We Transit; Repose; Coming to Know a Place 330 $a"Starting in 2005, John Griswold began publishing his nonfiction essays in Inside Higher Ed, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Brevity, Ninth Letter, and Adjunct Advocate under the pen name Oronte Churm. This collection contains heavily revised previously published essays but much more new material covering a wide range of topics riffing on the writing life-from the utility of creative writing to babies, and from race issues in a university town to crocodiles. Griswold's tongue-in-cheek tone allows him to discuss this breadth of subject matter in an inviting and entertaining way while still addressing prevalent and important issues. Much of this book has to do with the tenuous and uncertain place of university adjuncts and other contingent instructors in the larger higher education ecosphere. Griswold writes, 'After more than a dozen years teaching creative writing, literature, and rhetoric at two universities, I fell into what they call the tenure stream at another school. The worries and stresses have changed, but my interests remain: What does it mean to be educated? To think, feel, write? To be whole? The writing in this book was my own attempt to see if I knew anything at all. And of course that's a lifelong journey, its rewards always temporary and therefore comic. Picture Long John Silver at the end of the movie, his dory filled with stolen gold, rowing and sinking; rowing, sinking, and gloating.'"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aEssays 606 $aComposition (Language arts) 615 0$aEssays. 615 0$aComposition (Language arts) 676 $a814/.6 676 $aB 686 $aLCO010000$aLAN005000$2bisacsh 700 $aGriswold$b John$01496452 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789296003321 996 $aPirates you don't know, and other adventures in the examined life$93721124 997 $aUNINA