The Opposite Of Loneliness: A Time Capsule of Marina Keegan.
Marina Keegan wrote this poem, “Bygones,” while she was a student at Yale. She died in a car accident five days after her graduation. A book of her writing, The Opposite of Loneliness, was published posthumously this spring. And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.
A collection of Keegan's works, both fiction and non-fiction, was published posthumously by Scribner on April 8, 2014. The book is named after her graduation essay and features an introduction by the American author Anne Fadiman, who was one of Keegan's professors at Yale.
Stability in Motion by Marina Keegan Descriptive Writing Biggie expressed his identity through his poetry. Marina Keegan expresses her identity through her prized possession: her 1990 Camry Toyota. In this descriptive essay, Marina describes her car as a representation of her personality and her life.
The instant New York Times bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan’s posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories “sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Marina Keegan’s star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job.
As her family, friends and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her unforgettable last essay for the Yale Daily News, 'The Opposite of Loneliness', went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. She had struck a chord.
A book of her writing, released this week, is a testament to how she created more beautiful work in that time than most people ever do. Marina Keegan died when she was 22. A book of her writing.
MARINA KEEGAN (1989-2012) was an award-winning author, journalist, playwright, actress and activist. Her final essay for The Yale Daily News, “The Opposite of Loneliness,” became an instant global sensation, viewed by more than 1.4 million people from 98 countries. Her play Utility Monster opened the Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theater 2013 season; her musical, Independents, was a New York.
The title essay is the opening essay, and by far it is my favorite. She starts off discussing that we don’t have a word that means the opposite of loneliness; whatever the opposite of loneliness is, that’s how she felt at Yale. She felt secure, and like she was a part of something.
This is the beginning sentence from The Opposite of Loneliness, a collected work by Marina Keegan, compromised of fiction and non-fiction, and one of the most inspirational books I have ever read. Marina Keegan was a Yale-graduate that died a few days after her graduation, and was known among the university as an author, playwright, journalist, poet, and probably more.
Marina Keegan, like many other college students, is going through a major life event. She is graduating from Yale. In her essay, she describes those feelings of what seems to be “The Opposite of Loneliness”, the importance to never lose those feelings, and how it's never too late to “begin a beginning.”.
Editions for The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories: 147675361X (Hardcover published in 2014), 1476753628 (ebook published in 2014), 1476753911 (.
This is an excerpt from “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories” by Marina Keegan.
The reader learns that the author, Marina Keegan, died tragically shortly after graduating from Yale. With death the theme of both some essays and stories, that fact sadly does give this book more power. Keegan's stories are best when the main characters are 20-somethings like herself. They have an authentic feel, and she is a talented young.
