{"id":510,"date":"2014-10-03T14:41:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T14:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=510"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:57:08","slug":"freeze-publishes-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2014\/10\/03\/freeze-publishes-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemingway on a Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Associate Professor of English Eric Freeze’s book of essays, Hemingway on a Bike,<\/em> has been published by the University of Nebraska Press.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the write-up from the publisher’s page:<\/div>\n
A collage-like mash-up of personal anecdote, popular culture, masculinity, sports, and parenting, Hemingway on a Bike\u00a0takes readers through the many and varied twists and turns of the life and mind of its author, Eric Freeze. Delving into obsessions and experiences, Freeze\u2019s essays display a keen intelligence with insights on topics as diverse as Mormonism and foosball, Angry Birds and professional wrestling, superheroes and freebirthing, Ernest Hemingway and\u00a0Star Trek.<\/em><\/div>\n
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\u201cCarnecopia\u201d mashes experiences fishing and snorkeling with an exhibit at Monaco\u2019s oceanographic museum to comment on how human beings unwittingly enact harm on their environment. \u201cBolt\u201d explores the author\u2019s fascination with sprinting and shares moments in France and the Midwest, where the words \u201cto bolt\u201d sometimes have unforeseen consequences. \u201cSupergirl\u201d plays on the childhood fascination with superheroes juxtaposed with adulthood manifestations of gendered expectations.<\/em><\/p>\n

By turns playful, poignant, celebratory, and searching,\u00a0Hemingway on a Bike\u00a0meanders through ruminations on a number of subjects, and these reflections combine to dissect identity, belonging, and migration in an age when borders and boundaries, whatever the type, are continually transgressed and traversed.<\/em><\/p>\n

And some great reviews by some great writers, including:<\/p>\n

\u201cBodybuilding Jesuses, glorious thorough moving explorations of the word \u2018bolt,\u2019 the search for the finest foosball table in the world, beardlessness, wrestling, the many glories of Canada, towns filled with Vulcans, superheroes, house-lust, love, pain\u2014a wry and piercing collection of adventures and misadventures from a terrific essayist. A book both tart and gentle, which I savored from the first line to the last.\u201d\u2014Brian Doyle, author of\u00a0Mink River\u00a0<\/i>and Leaping<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA wonderful\u00a0book of essays, wry and wise, in which Eric Freeze considers what it is to be a twenty-first-century literary man\u2019s man in all his house-remodeling, sweet-parenting, foosball-playing glory.\u201d\u2014Jess Walter, author of\u00a0Beautiful Ruins<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Financial Lives of the Poets<\/i><\/p>\n

Wabash Magazine readers will recognize one of the essays\u2014”Bolt”\u2014which was reprinted in the magazine. Freeze is also the author of Dominant Traits, <\/a>a book of short stories published by Oberon Press.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Hemingway on a Bike at the University of Nebraska Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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