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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Things that are
    sub title: essays
  name:
    name part: Leach, Amy
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 185 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a Whiting Award, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Best American Essays selection, and a Pushcart Prize, all received before her first book-length publication. This book represents a major break-out of an entirely new brand of nonfiction writer, in a mode like that of Ander Monson, John D'Agata, and Eula Biss, but a new sort of beast entirely its own. Things That Are takes jellyfish, fainting goats, and imperturbable caterpillars as just a few of its many inspirations. In a series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers to the mo.
  note: Amy Leach ; illustrations by Nate Christopherson.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Donkey Derby -- I. THINGS OF EARTH -- Trappists -- In Which the River Makes Off with Three Stationary Characters -- Goats and Bygone Goats -- Talent -- Warbler Delight -- Pea Madness -- Radical Bears in the Forest Delicious -- Trooping with Trouble -- Silly Lilies -- The Wine of Astonishment -- When Trees Dream of Being Trees -- Love -- Please Do Not Yell at the Sea Cucumber -- You Are Going to Fly -- God -- MEMORANDUM TO THE ANIMALS -- II. THINGS OF HEAVEN -- The Same Old Joy -- The Safari -- Stairs -- Sail On, My Little Honeybee -- Twinkle Twinkle -- The Wild What -- Comfortless -- THE ORACLE -- Afterword -- The Round-Earth Affair -- Glossary Of Strange Beasts And Phenomena.
  subject:
    topic: Natural history literature
  subject:
    topic: Natural history literature
  subject:
    topic: Natural history
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Science
  classification: QH13.45 .L43 2012eb
  classification: 508
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Things That Are
    name:
      name part: Leach, Amy
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Milkweed Editions, c2012
  identifier: 9781571318640 (electronic)
  identifier: 157131864X (electronic)
  identifier: 9781571313348 (acid-free paper)
  identifier: 1571313346 (acid-free paper)
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 120611
    record change date: 20250816205111.4
    record identifier: in00002760159
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng