tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post2144366295156420751..comments2024-03-14T02:24:22.876-07:00Comments on Essay Daily: Talk About the Essay: Jill Christman on Jo Ann BeardUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post-79789263360085627352019-03-10T13:11:49.799-07:002019-03-10T13:11:49.799-07:00Never get tired of this essay! I've read it a ...Never get tired of this essay! I've read it a dozen times at least, and aloud thrice; Once each to two friends and once to record it. (Don't like that recording; Will try again.)<br /><br />As I’ve commented elsewhere there are two edits of the essay which I’ve come to refer to simply as the “earlier” and “later” edits. “Earlier” = the June 24/July 1, 1996 double issue of The New Yorker, and The Best American Essays 1997; "Later” = Ms. Beard’s 1999 collection The Boys of My Youth and in the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. (FWIW neither edit is demonstrably better, though Gang Lu first appears much sooner in the earlier edit.)Steve Russillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01474299071049515873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post-47733723648882814482018-10-30T07:11:41.232-07:002018-10-30T07:11:41.232-07:00This is a lovely piece for study and my 1st time r...This is a lovely piece for study and my 1st time reading it. What makes it representative of the essay genre?Behnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18267393631247201860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post-70056646890043478832016-07-26T14:57:03.692-07:002016-07-26T14:57:03.692-07:00I read this essay and its amazing.Thanks for your ...I read this essay and its amazing.Thanks for your great review on it.Bal Krishna Dhakalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11682753363425566255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post-69243362841775150272013-09-17T15:57:00.671-07:002013-09-17T15:57:00.671-07:00I also teach this essay--I usually focus on voice ...I also teach this essay--I usually focus on voice and tense--but I love the idea of breaking the class into five groups. I'm looking forward to trying it next time. <br /><br />The end of this piece reminds me of the end of James Joyce's "The Dead." Both are haunting with their sense of quiet and possession of new knowledge. And both pieces are so rich. I never get tired of reading them because they seem to grow with me, evolving as I get older and read new things and return to them with a new or more nuanced awareness of life's losses. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post-27436596419813620402013-09-17T05:37:37.932-07:002013-09-17T05:37:37.932-07:00So true! What a great response to a great work of ...So true! What a great response to a great work of art. I just listed Beard's essay as one of my own top ten essays of all time. And what I said, much less eloquently, was that it would be a great essay without the big newsy Event that first stuns readers.Beard's brokenhearted awareness that suffuses the whole thing leads to it, a heroic making of meaning.Richard Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295157685034187345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post-37463293278226091222013-09-16T08:51:11.108-07:002013-09-16T08:51:11.108-07:00Jill, your analysis of the essay will now become p...Jill, your analysis of the essay will now become part of anytime I might have opportunity to teach this fabulous essay. Thank you!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06753308927035439774noreply@blogger.com