NONFICTION

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Also available now is WRITES OF PASSAGE, including the memoir essay “Hardball” by Robert Schultz. This anthology of coming-of-age stories and memoirs is culled from the last 25 years of The Hudson Review, including works by William Trevor, Tennessee Williams, Wendell Berry, and Elizabeth Spencer. “Hardball” is part of a work in progress, a collection of memoir-essays entitled MORTAL STAKES. Each essay touches on some aspect of sports, especially as a medium through which an American son knows his father.

My work in the nonfiction essay has ranged from literary criticism to memoir and the familiar essay. Most recently, in essays such as "The Ephemera" (Subtropics, Spring/Summer 2006) and "Two Stories About the Body" (The Gettysburg Review, Autumn 2005) I have enjoyed the flexibility of the familiar essay to absorb storytelling, cultural comment, and speculative reflection. My critical essays have been written for a general, literate audience, and have included work on contemporary poetics, feminist "male gaze" theory, film, and such figures as Joseph Conrad, Ezra Pound, and Gary Snyder. For several years I served as a regular poetry reviewer for The Hudson Review. Parts of those reviews—on poets Philip Levine, John Haines, Colette Inez, and Garret Hongo—have been collected in books and reference works.

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