Bjarki, not Bjarki on floorboards, love, and irreconcilable differences Clark, Matthew J. C. 1982- creator author. University of Iowa Press publisher. text Biographies Essays Essays. iau 2023 monographic eng print 163 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm "Clark tells the story of his attempts to write a magazine-style essay about Bjarki Thor Gunnarsson, a climate change denier and conspiracy theorizer who also happens to manufacture the widest, purest, most metaphorical pine boards around. Set mostly in rural Maine, Bjarki, Not Bjarki combines personal narrative, immersive journalism, and environmental rumination, all told in a distinctive essayistic voice. While Clark considers the motley theatre of rural masculinity, North American colonization, woodpeckers, gift cards, crab rangoon, and bald eagles, the new pine floor in his newly renovated home buckles. He and his wife separate. He puts on a mask, goes to Florida, and does not cry. Upon Clark's return, Bjarki's famous boards seem only to exist in his mind. The book asks: How do we make sense of the world and of ourselves, especially when the floor beneath us is so unstable, when nothing is quite what we had hoped it would be?"-- Manatee (afterward) -- Canfield -- Shavings (the little log cabin) -- Shavings (the magazine-style essay) (January 31, 2017) -- Rangoon -- Shavings (split (afterward)) -- M. Americana -- Shavings (monster) -- Irreconcilable differences -- Shavings (whose fault?) Rangoon II (eggplant) -- Blue stain -- Spongiology -- Shavings (the thirty-seventh view) -- 3:04 in the afternoon -- Shavings (real America (afterward)) -- Shavings (lovejoy) -- Shavings (laccaria) -- Shavings (rangoon III (unrealization)). Matthew J. C. Clark. Clark, Matthew J. C 1982- Authors, American 21st century Biography Écrivains américains 21e siècle Biographies Authors, American 2000-2099 fast PS3603.L365325 Z46 2023 813/.6 B Bjarki, not Bjarki Clark, Matthew J. C., 1982- Iowa City : University of Iowa, 2023 (DLC) 2023015304 9781609389352 1609389352 9781609389369 2023015303 DLC 230623 20240320162114.2 in00004785168 eng