Visiting with Shane Borrowman

I just spent a few minutes on the phone with rhetorician and creative non-fiction author Shane Borrowman.  He's a generous soul and a gifted voice.

In rhetoric, he is noted for textbooks:

Editor.  Authenticity.  Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2013.
Editor.  The Cost of Business.  New York: Longman, 2010.
Co-Editor with Edward M. White.  The Promise of America.  New York: Longman, 2006.
Co-Editor with Lynn Z. Bloom and Edward M. White.  Inquiry.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 2003.  

...and edited collections:

Editor. On the Blunt Edge: Technology in Composition’s History and Pedagogy. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor, 2012.
Co-Editor with Marcia Kmetz and Rob Lively. Rhetoric in the Rest of the West. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Cambridge, UK: 2010.
Co-Editor with Stuart C. Brown and Thomas P. Miller. Renewing Rhetoric’s Relations to Composition: Essays in Honor of Theresa Jarnagin Enos. Oxford, UK: Taylor and Francis, 2009.
Co-Editor with Theresa Enos. The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor, 2008.
Editor. Trauma and the Teaching of Writing. Albany: State U of New York P, 2005.
Managing Editor with Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White. Composition Studies in the New Millennium: Rereading the Past—Rewriting the Future. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003.

...and creative nonfiction:

“Peter Benchley is Dead.”  Fourth Genre 15.2 (2013): 83-89.
“Push.”  Whitefish Review 15.2 (Winter 2011/2012):  94-95.
“Chips.”  Conclave: A Journal of Character (Issue 2, Winter 2009-2010):  114-23.
“Icky Papa Died.”  Brevity: The Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. (May 2009).
“That’s Not What You Saw.”  Paradigm (Spring 2008).  (Reprinted in annual “best of” volume, 12/2008.)
“Of Nails, Nonfiction, and Various Adhesives.” Brevity: The Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. (Spring 2007).
“Shoot the Drift.”  Brevity:  The Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction.  (Spring 2006).

He's a gentleman, and I'd like to nod to his work and to him in gratitude.