Jill Talbot

co-editor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non)Fictions Come Together

November 4, 2015

Jill Talbot earned her Ph.D. in Contemporary American Literature and Film from Texas Tech University. She received her MA in creative writing from the University of Colorado, where she was twice the recipient of the Jovanovich Award for best manuscript. She has published poems, essays, and craft essays in journals such as Notre Dame Review, Under the Sun, Blue Mesa Review, Cimarron Review, Segue, and Ecotone.

The Art of Friction surveys the borderlands where friction and nonfiction intersect, commingle and challenge genre lines. It anthologizes 19 creative works by contemporary, award-winning writers including Junot Diaz, Jonathan Safran Foer, Thomas Beller, Bernard Cooper, Wendy McClure, and Terry Tempest Williams, who also provide companion pieces in which they comment on their work. These selections, which place short stories and personal essays (and hybrids of the two) side by side, allow readers to examine the similarities and differences between the genres, as well as explore the trends in genre overlap. Functioning as both a reader and a discussion of the craft of writing, The Art of Friction is a timely, essential book for all writers and readers who seek truthfulness of lived experience through (non)fictions.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2010-honorees/jill-talbot

Last Updated: 8 December 2015