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Keep it real : everything you need to know about researching and writing creative nonfiction
Record details
- ISBN: 0393065618 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780393065619 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
167 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton, c2008.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Acknowledgment of sources -- Backdoor access -- Checkbook journalism -- Composite characters -- Compression -- Defamation and libel -- Evolution of the genre -- Facts -- Fact-checking -- Family members as characters -- Forewords and afterwords -- Frame -- Getting inside characters' heads -- Guiding the reader -- Gunkholing: finding a story -- History into nonfiction narrative -- The "I" -- Immersion -- Influencing readers -- Keeping it brief -- Legal responsibilities of publishers -- The lyric essay -- The memoir craze -- Metaphor -- Montage writing -- The narrative impulse -- Navel-gazing -- Point of view -- Psychoanalyzing characters -- Quotation marks -- Reconstruction of events -- Reflection -- The roots of memoir -- Scenes -- Subjectivity -- Tape recording -- Truth -- Use of imagination -- The vagaries of memory -- Whose story to tell -- Writers' responsibility to subjects. |
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| Subject: | Reportage literature Authorship Journalism Authorship Creative writing |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Homer Public Library | 808.02 GUT (Text) | 000084915 | Nonfiction | Available | - |