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Author:   Randon Billings Noble
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
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9781496205049

ISBN 10:   1496205049
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   01 March 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Whatever Bed The Split Mirror Glimpses Elegy for Dracula Ambush II. Shadows and Markings The Shadow of the Hours Leaving the Island Behind the Caves Marked III. Biologies The Heart as a Torn Muscle A Pill to Cure Love What of the Raven, What of the Dove? Assemblage Vertebrae IV. The Voice at the Window Yet Another Day at the Jersey Shore The Sparkling Future Widow Fantasies Striking V. On Looking On Looking The Ownership of Memory The Island of Topaz Shells Camouflet VI. The Red Thread Knots 69 Inches of Thread, Scarlet and Otherwise On Silence Devotional Acknowledgments Bibliography

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How does a body want? How does a body know? And in wanting and in knowing, why does a body refrain from solidifying desire and knowledge? These are the questions that Randon Billings Noble asks in her essays, which cut so deep into the body. -Jenny Boully, author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life -- Jenny Boully A marvel. These essays are lyrical and innovative. . . . Dracula is a guide to a first love, Robinson Crusoe carries her through pregnancy with twins, Terry Tempest Williams helps her survive a cancer diagnosis, and E. M. Forster and Facebook help her manage the strange faces at her high school reunion. I admire Noble and her essays very much. -Ned Stuckey-French, author of The American Essay in the American Century -- Ned Stuckey-French In her brilliant collection Be with Me Always, Randon Billings Noble explores the frailty of romance, of the human body, and of us all, with startling honesty, admirable ingenuity, genuine insight, and, always, with energy and surprise. -Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire -- Dinty W. Moore

How does a body want? How does a body know? And in wanting and in knowing, why does a body refrain from solidifying desire and knowledge? These are the questions that Randon Billings Noble asks in her essays, which cut so deep into the body. -Jenny Boully, author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life -- Jenny Boully A marvel. These essays are lyrical and innovative. . . . Dracula is a guide to a first love, Robinson Crusoe carries her through pregnancy with twins, Terry Tempest Williams helps her survive a cancer diagnosis, and E. M. Forster and Facebook help her manage the strange faces at her high school reunion. I admire Noble and her essays very much. -Ned Stuckey-French, author of The American Essay in the American Century -- Ned Stuckey-French In her brilliant collection Be with Me Always, Randon Billings Noble explores the frailty of romance, of the human body, and of us all, with startling honesty, admirable ingenuity, genuine insight, and, always, with energy and surprise. -Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire -- Dinty W. Moore Noble gives us essays that elevate the rawness of real life with an overarching theme of hauntedness. From hard choices to characters in classic literature, from a near-death experience to past lovers, she has written a book that appeals to readers of both modern pop culture magazines and Emily Bronte. -Hannah Grieco, Washington City Paper -- Hannah Grieco * Washington City Paper * Like a girl, perfumed, attempting to become a flower, Noble's essays try to become the things they describe; her work reminds us of the labor, and the ingenuity, needed to thoroughly examine a life. . . . Be With Me Always will read like a best friend who understands you and your love of the quick, compressed, and strange. -Amy V. Blakemore, Barrelhouse Reviews -- Amy V. Blakemore * Barrelhouse Reviews * The twenty-six essays in Noble's collection confront hauntings on a personal and literary scale. Famous figures of history and culture interweave with experiences that span Noble's girlhood to present day. She wrangles with the complexities of love, ambition, identity, rejection, legacy, and parenthood. At heart is the question of who's doing the haunting? Do we haunt ourselves? Why would we do that? . . . Noble powerfully reminds us that hauntings spring from the same desire that propels enduring essays, the desire to live an examined life. -Magin LaSov Gregg, Brevity -- Magin LaSov Gregg * Brevity * Be with Me Always has much to teach its readers about longing, experimental writing, and the fruits of reading extensively. This collection is sure to be taught in writing classes far and wide. Noble teaches us the truths of the flaneur, to be a good outsider and essayist: It is important to watch and to try, to think and to create. -Gretchen Lida, Punctuate -- Gretchen Lida * Punctuate * Be With Me Always works its magic in profound, subtle, seamless ways. The meticulous craftsmanship in the construction of these essays is equally matched by Noble's beautiful, confident, assured vision. -Christopher John Stephens, Pop Matters -- Christopher John Stephens * Pop Matters * A motley collection of pieces. . . . Essayist Noble has a focused, tight style, often employing the technique of looking at somewhat discrete items (or memories) and seeking connections among them. . . . Unique eyes look at familiar things and somehow make them seem both odder and more familiar. -Kirkus * Kirkus *

How does a body want? How does a body know? And in wanting and in knowing, why does a body refrain from solidifying desire and knowledge? These are the questions that Randon Billings Noble asks in her essays, which cut so deep into the body. -Jenny Boully, author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life -- Jenny Boully A marvel. These essays are lyrical and innovative. . . . Dracula is a guide to a first love, Robinson Crusoe carries her through pregnancy with twins, Terry Tempest Williams helps her survive a cancer diagnosis, and E. M. Forster and Facebook help her manage the strange faces at her high school reunion. I admire Noble and her essays very much. -Ned Stuckey-French, author of The American Essay in the American Century -- Ned Stuckey-French In her brilliant collection Be with Me Always, Randon Billings Noble explores the frailty of romance, of the human body, and of us all, with startling honesty, admirable ingenuity, genuine insight, and, always, with energy and surprise. -Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire -- Dinty W. Moore Like a girl, perfumed, attempting to become a flower, Noble's essays try to become the things they describe; her work reminds us of the labor, and the ingenuity, needed to thoroughly examine a life. . . . Be With Me Always will read like a best friend who understands you and your love of the quick, compressed, and strange. -Amy V. Blakemore, Barrelhouse Reviews -- Amy V. Blakemore * Barrelhouse Reviews * The twenty-six essays in Noble's collection confront hauntings on a personal and literary scale. Famous figures of history and culture interweave with experiences that span Noble's girlhood to present day. She wrangles with the complexities of love, ambition, identity, rejection, legacy, and parenthood. At heart is the question of who's doing the haunting? Do we haunt ourselves? Why would we do that? . . . Noble powerfully reminds us that hauntings spring from the same desire that propels enduring essays, the desire to live an examined life. -Magin LaSov Gregg, Brevity -- Magin LaSov Gregg * Brevity * Be with Me Always has much to teach its readers about longing, experimental writing, and the fruits of reading extensively. This collection is sure to be taught in writing classes far and wide. Noble teaches us the truths of the flaneur, to be a good outsider and essayist: It is important to watch and to try, to think and to create. -Gretchen Lida, Punctuate -- Gretchen Lida * Punctuate * Be With Me Always works its magic in profound, subtle, seamless ways. The meticulous craftsmanship in the construction of these essays is equally matched by Noble's beautiful, confident, assured vision. -Christopher John Stephens, Pop Matters -- Christopher John Stephens * Pop Matters * A motley collection of pieces. . . . Essayist Noble has a focused, tight style, often employing the technique of looking at somewhat discrete items (or memories) and seeking connections among them. . . . Unique eyes look at familiar things and somehow make them seem both odder and more familiar. -Kirkus * Kirkus *

Author Information

Randon Billings Noble is an essayist. Her work has been published in the Modern Love column of the New York Times, the Georgia Review, Fourth Genre, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. Her essay “The Heart as a Torn Muscle,” originally published in Brevity, was listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2016.      

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