In fact : the best of Creative nonfiction / edited by Lee Gutkind ; introduction by Annie Dillard.
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, Creative Nonfiction, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. Lauren Slater is a therapist in the institution where she was once a patient. John Edgar Wideman reacts passionately to the unjust murder of Emmett Till. Charles Simic tells of wild nights with Uncle Boris. John McPhee creates a rare, personal, album quilt. Terry Tempest Williams speaks on the decline of the prairie dog. Madison Smartt Bell invades Haiti. Many of the writers are crossing genres--from poetry and fiction to nonfiction--symbolic of Creative Nonfiction's scope and popularity. A cross section of the famous and those bound to become so, this collection is a riveting experience highlighting the expanding importance of this dramatic and exciting new genre. A tenth anniversary collection of twenty-five narrative essays originally published in the journal, Creative Nonfiction, includes Lauren Slater's discussion of her work as a therapist at an institution where she was once a patient, John Edgar Wideman's passionate reaction to the murder of Emmett Till, and John McPhee's personal album quilt.
Record details
- ISBN: 0393326659 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780393326659 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xxxvi, 440 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2005.
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Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | American essays. American prose literature > 20th century. American prose literature > 21st century. Reportage literature, American. Journalism > United States. |
Genre: | American essays. American prose literature > 20th century. American prose literature > 21st century. |
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