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If You Knew Then What I Know Now
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New York Magazine's The Year in Books pick
The Millions' A Year in Reading pick
Salon.com's Writers Choose Their Favorite Books
Author: Ryan Van Meter
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 04/05/2011
Pages: 209
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 7.77h x 5.35w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781932511949
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/04/2011
Foreword 04/29/2011
About the Author
Ryan Van Meter grew up in Missouri and studied English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. After graduating, he lived in Chicago for ten years and worked in advertising. He holds an MA in creative writing from DePaul University and an MFA in nonfiction writing from The University of Iowa. His essays have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, Arts & Letters, and Fourth Genre, among others, and selected for anthologies including Best American Essays 2009. In the summer of 2009, he was awarded a residency at the MacDowell Colony. He currently lives in California where he is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at The University of San Francisco.
The Millions' A Year in Reading pick
Salon.com's Writers Choose Their Favorite Books
The middle American coming-of-age has found new life in Ryan Van Meter's coming-out, made as strange as it is familiar by acknowledging the role played by gender and sexuality. In fourteen linked essays, If You Knew Then What I Know Now reinvents the memoir with all-encompassing empathy--for bully and bullied alike. A father pitches baseballs at his hapless son and a grandmother watches with silent forbearance as the same slim, quiet boy sets the table dressed in a blue satin dress. Another essay explores origins of the word faggot and its etymological connection to flaming queen. This deft collection maps the unremarkable landscapes of childhood with compassion and precision, allowing awkwardness its own beauty. This is essay as an argument for the intimate--not the sensational--and an embrace of all the skinned knees in our stumble toward adulthood.
Ryan Van Meter grew up in Missouri and studied English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. After graduating, he lived in Chicago for ten years and worked in advertising. He holds an MA in creative writing from DePaul University and an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. His essays have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, Arts & Letters, and Fourth Genre, among others, and selected for anthologies including Best American Essays 2009. In the summer of 2009, he was awarded a residency at the MacDowell Colony. He currently lives in California where he is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of San Francisco.
Author: Ryan Van Meter
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 04/05/2011
Pages: 209
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 7.77h x 5.35w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781932511949
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/04/2011
Foreword 04/29/2011
About the Author
Ryan Van Meter grew up in Missouri and studied English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. After graduating, he lived in Chicago for ten years and worked in advertising. He holds an MA in creative writing from DePaul University and an MFA in nonfiction writing from The University of Iowa. His essays have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, Arts & Letters, and Fourth Genre, among others, and selected for anthologies including Best American Essays 2009. In the summer of 2009, he was awarded a residency at the MacDowell Colony. He currently lives in California where he is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at The University of San Francisco.
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