Personal Yet Dazzlingly Eclectic 'Notes' On Race: NPR.
Eula Biss The Pain Scale 0 No Pain The concept of Christ is considerably older than the concept of zero. Both are problematic—both have their fallacies and their immaculate conceptions. But the problem of zero troubles me significantly more than the problem of Christ. I am sitting in the exam room of a hospital entertaining the idea that absolutely no pain is not possible. Despite the.Download (PDF, 616KB) Eula Biss. In what has become a classic essay in the genre of nonfiction, “Time and Distance Overcome” is stunning in its transformation; it starts out as a somewhat mundane list of facts about telephone poles, and then becomes something else entirely.Biography. Eula Biss is the author of three books: On Immunity: An Inoculation (Graywolf 2014), Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays (Graywolf 2009), and The Balloonists (Hanging Loose 2002).Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, an NEA Literature Fellowship, a 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library, and a Jaffe Writers' Award.
About Eula Biss. Eula Biss is the author of two books, The Balloonists and Notes from No Man’s Land, which won the 2008 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.Her essays have appeared in The Believer, The North American Review, Gulf Coast, Columbia, and Harper’s, and have been anthologized in the collections The Best Creative Nonfiction and The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction.Notes from No Man’s Land is a 2009 collection of essays by American author Eula Biss. Drawing on Biss’s personal experiences and extensive historical research, the essays comprise a portrait of race in America, exploring Biss’s conflicted position as a white woman who was raised in a partially African American cultural setting.
The first essay in Eula Biss’s reissued essay collection Notes from No Man’s Land, “Time and Distance Overcome,” begins as a history of the telephone, then moves to focus specifically on telephone poles.At the end of the fourth page, Biss narrows her focus once more, this time to describe a series of lynchings that used telephone poles as their instruments.
