In fact : the best of Creative nonfiction /
Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-five essays that flourished on this new ground, all originally published in the journal he founded, Cre...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
©2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Creative nonfiction (Pittsburgh, Pa.) ;
24/25. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : notes for young writers / Annie Dillard
- The creative nonfiction police? / Lee Gutkind
- Three spheres / Lauren Slater
- Looking at Emmett Till / John Edgar Wideman
- Shunned / Meredith Hall
- An album quilt / John McPhee
- Dinner at Uncle Boris's / Charles Simic
- Prayer dogs / Terry Tempest Williams
- What is it we really harvestin' here? / Ntozake Shange
- The Brown study / Richard Rodriguez
- Killing wolves / Sherry Simpson
- Being Brians / Brian Doyle
- Language at play / Diane Ackerman
- Finders keepers: the story of Joey Coyle / Mark Bowden
- Notes from a difficult case / Ruthann Robson
- Adventures in celestial navigation / Philip Gerard
- Leaving Babylon: a walk through the Jewish divorce ceremony / Judyth Har-Even
- Gray area: thinking with a damaged brain / Floyd Skloot
- Joe stopped by / Andrei Codrescu
- In the woods / Leslie Rubinkowski
- Sa'm Pèdi / Madison Smartt Bell
- Going native / Francine Prose
- Chimera / Gerald N. Callahan
- Mixed-blood stew / Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Why I ride / Jana Richman
- Delivering Lily / Phillip Lopate.
