Short Circuits: Aphorisms, Fragments, and Literary Anomalies
Edited by James Lough and Alex Stein
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About the Book
Following up on their first anthology of aphorisms (Short Flights: Thirty-Two Modern Writers Share Aphorisms of Insight, Inspiration, and Wit), editors James Lough and Alex Stein have returned with a new volume. Short Circuits: Aphorisms, Fragments, and Literary Anomalies expands on the theme of aphorisms to include other short-form writing and concrete poetry and prose from several of the world’s leading, award-winning, and best-sellling writers in the genre, including Charles Simic, Lydia Davis, Sarah Manguso, Jane Hirschfield, Joy Harjo, Yahia Labadidi, Claudia Rankine, and Stephen Dobyn.
About the Editors
James Lough, Ph.D., is a professor of writing at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and is the former director of SCAD’s creative writing program. He also is the recipient of the Frank Waters Southwestern Writing Award for short fiction. Short Circuits: Aphorisms, Fragments, and Literary Anomalies is the second book of short-form writing co-edited by Dr. Lough and Dr. Alex Stein. The first is titled Short Flights: Thirty-Two Modern Writers Share Aphorisms of Insight, Inspiration, and Wit. Additionally, Dr. Lough is the author of This Ain’t No Holiday Inn: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel 1980–1995 and the co-editor of Sites of Insight: A Guide to Colorado Sacred Places—which won the Colorado Endowment of Humanities Award—and Spheres of Awareness: A Wilberian Integral Approach to Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Art. Dr. Lough has spoken about This Ain’t No Holiday Inn on a prior episode of Listening to Literature.
