Emerson thesis -- Creative writing
Found in 398 Collections and/or Records:
Well-Known Stranger: Essays and Stories, 2019
What kind of girl, 2018
What Lies Beneath, 2023
What makes a monster, 2016
This thesis is a project to design the interiors and exteriors of four books that explore what a monster is in form, action, and emotion: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë; Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
What People Want To Know & Other Essays, 2024
What the ashes knew, 2015
"What the Ashes Knew is a collection of linked stories following a handful of characters united by a diary. These stories explore the ways people love each other and the ways they hurt one another (and themselves), with a particular focus on the repercussions of secrecy and the difficulty of knowing another person." --Abstract.
What you have lost : a memoir, 2014
My memoir is part of a larger, complex puzzle of who I am and how I became this person.--Abstract.
When Gods Wander, 2024
When Pineapples were Sweeter, 2019
When the dust settled, 2015
"This collection of short stories explores many different characters, all of whom are struggling with their relationships with themselves, their family members and partners, and even the world around them. Each story studies the nuances of the different relationships people form and break throughout their lives. They are linked through their setting of El Paso, Texas, which is my hometown and a place I've always considered to be of underestimated beauty and appeal." -- Abstract.
Why god made little boys : a memoir, 2009
Why God Made Little Boys explores the dynamics of the narrator's relationship with a silent father, physically abusive brother, an ever present mother, and a God he is waiting for. From sexual abuse to HIV diagnosis, the narrator finds strength in his ima
Wings like boomerangs, 2017
"Wings Like Boomerangs is a literary speculative fiction novel, set in the far future, when interstellar flight is possible, at the cost of lost time." --Abstract.
Women alone : stories, 2017
"Six tales of young American women navigating instances of isolation or separation from their lovers, colleagues, siblings, and families, as well as from personal and professional desires, sexual identity, social expectations, and spirituality -- and, invariably, from themselves." --Abstract.
World don't speak for us, 2016
You Get To Be Alive, 2024
"A collection of short stories exploring the darker, stranger depths of who and how we love. These stories are about motherhood, ghosts, and ex-girlfriends. They delve into the complexities of romances, friendships and family, delusions and unrealized dreams." -- Abstract
You iii and everything else, 2018
"This work is a collection of formally experimental short stories exploring fault lines in the human experience: the limitations of our senses and understanding of reality, our self-contradicting desires and fragile sense of identity, our awareness of our inability to affect time or avoid loss and death." --Abstract.