Date of Graduation
5-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA)
Degree Level
Graduate
Department
English
Advisor/Mentor
Padma Viswanathan
Committee Member
Toni Jensen
Second Committee Member
Michael Heffernan
Keywords
Communication and the arts, Detroit, Fiction, Humanism, Billy Joel, Original short stories, Rice, Anne
Abstract
In these three stories, David Kinzer answers the collection’s title with the precision of the hard sciences. In “The Humanist,” the strained relationship between a father and son becomes even more complicated when the son marries. In “Château Royale,” a young woman moves into a new home with a dark history. The final piece, “Starting After Midnight,” follows two young people in the aftermath of a one-night stand. All of everything is inside: Gatling guns and The Birth of Tragedy, Anne Rice and Taco Bell, kit foxes and sex tips. The answer is waiting. All you need to do is read and add, one plus one, until you reach the sum of everything.
Citation
Kinzer, D. (2016). Why Everything Is a Whole Lot of Nothing Worth Losing or Getting Back. Graduate Theses and Dissertations Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1616