Up close and personal this first-of-its-kind collection showcases contemporary essays that explore failure,  planetary movement and love among a variety of topics. The candor of these autobiographical,  lyric,  personal and segmented narratives is tempered by the distance, intimacy,  humor and unsentimental tenderness that the second-person point of view affords both writer and reader.


Kim Dana Kupperman is the founder of Welcome Table Press. Her critically acclaimed collection of essays I Just Lately Started Buying Wings received the 2009 Bakeless Prize in Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in many publications including Best American Essays,  Hotel Amerika,  River Teeth and elsewhere. The former managing editor of The Gettysburg Review literary journal Ms. Kupperman teaches at Fordham University and is a faculty member of the Fairfield University MFA in Creative Writing.