Across
- 1. In Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Alexandra Fuller features Africa, as does Bill Bryson with Australia in In a Sunburned Country, as a main one of these
- 2. Academic frolicking to some
- 8. Silverman's essay The Wandering Jew does a beautiful job illustrating the many primary elements for adhering to this mantra – personify emotion, use rich language, engage the senses but cut the ‘sensing’ verbs, use dialogue, be specific/be descriptive
- 10. From common adage, visual with 11th letter written value
- 13. (im)perfect poet Newman
- 15. Like bread in Crazy in the Kitchen, these colored smocks in Mountain City represent a fabric of connection in the community
- 17. This Mountain City author takes a different approach but similarly writes {see related weather clue info} as a member of the community, an entity to be lived with as much as lived through
- 20. Abbreviated reference point?
- 21. A more traditional ending in Bird in Hand & The Dirty Life, a more ‘definitive’ ending in Reiderer's essay Patient
- 22. Fabric fashion in noun-verb duality
- 23. {see chronology clue}; Baker Kline reverses it via these formatted flashbacks
- 25. Former British sitcom or this theme common to In Revere: In Those Days, Crazy in the Ktichen, and Bird in Hand
- 26. Another example of {reference appropriate ‘wordplay’ clue number}: Don’t rush the title interpretation of this essay by Reiderer
- 27. Common to DeSalvo’s book and Kingsolver's essay Letter to My Mother, a young short-sighted theme?
- 30. Bibliophile's manual
- 32. See {insert related parentheses clue info here}: This author’s choice to offset important information – sometimes perhaps the most important details – in parenthetical statements sets up a nice juxtaposition for the reader between playful, even seemingly ancillary material with heavier, meaningful primary subject matter. This maneuvering serves to draw attention more directly to content presented in effect incidentally.
- 33. Spectacles on a page perhaps
- 36. Example of {insert relevant clue # here) DeSalvo’s focus on the qualities and types of this in the very early pages of Crazy in the Kitchen allow her to speak to multiple themes important to the narrative: right vs wrong, Italian vs American, grandmother vs mother, natural vs manufactured
- 37. A more traditional beginning in Bird in Hand & The Dirty Life, a more ‘definitive’ beginning in Newman's poem Minyan
Down
- 1. A temporal arrangement
- 3. Physical objects serving as gateways into narrative around ‘so much more’
- 4. This early example of symbolism becomes increasingly important throughout the book with {see bread clue info}/food/cooking serving as this for complex family identity and relationships
- 5. Example of {visual aids clue #} used in The Grace of Silence & Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
- 6. Another example of {reference appropriate ‘wordplay’ clue number}: Possible alternate title for Amy Tan’s essay Mother Tongue
- 7. Uptight action word in reverse perhaps
- 9. (Of minor importance?)
- 11. Author’s statement of indebtedness, in brief
- 12. This author seamlessly combines the adage (from visual value clue #) with the technique (from wordplay clue #) in this following passage: “The picture of the hand was completely unnecessary; the blank line would have sufficed. But the hand is there. And it is the hand of authority, and it has dressed itself formally for the occasion, in white shirt and dark suit, and there can be no mistaking that it is a white hand, and that the white hand is a man’s hand, and that the complexion of the white man’s hand is not dark, like my grandmother’s, but fair. It is the fairest of all.”**
- 14. {see chronology clue}; this author plays around with it by merging past and present in the essay Photograph
- 16. Literature in disguise?
- 18. Another example of {visual aids clue #} shared by Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight & In a Sunburned Country
- 19. Alternative to living through emotional storms?
- 24. Pluralized start of old-time newspaper street vendor catchphrase; collection of {insert relevant clue #s}
- 28. Louise DeSalvo in her memoir echoes {poet of Newman clue #} in the use of this technique as a writing tool to showcase the important of cadence and rhythm in guiding the text to evoke a distinct feeling/reader experience
- 29. Ingredients to spice up a book perhaps like in Alexander's The Light of the World or Kimball's The Dirty Life
- 31. See {related weather clue info}: Shelby Smoak does a powerful job using vivid imagery of the natural world to represent the experience of his body through manifestations in the physical world, effectively writing himself into the landscape in his memoir entitled this
- 34. Don’t refrain from identifying the “I didn’t know…” paragraphs in Crazy and “Think about…” paragraphs in Our Lady of the Lost and Found* as reminiscent of these in a song
- 35. "Don't ______ me on that."