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Title

In fact : the best of Creative nonfiction / edited by Lee Gutkind ; introduction by Annie Dillard.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2005.

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Additional Authors

Gutkind, Lee.

Description

xxxvi, 440 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Creative nonfiction.

Subject

• American essays
• American prose literature > 20th century
• American prose literature > 21st century
• Reportage literature, American
• Journalism > United States

Genre/Form

• American essays.
• American prose literature – 20th century.
• American prose literature – 21st century.

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 stody / 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 Pedi / 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.

Call Number

JFD 07-290

ISBN

• 0393326659 (pbk.)
• 9780393326659 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2004016506
• 9780393326659

OCLC

55981578

Title

In fact : the best of Creative nonfiction / edited by Lee Gutkind ; introduction by Annie Dillard.

Imprint

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2005.

Edition

1st ed.

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Added Author

Gutkind, Lee.

Added Title

Creative nonfiction.

Other Standard Identifier

9780393326659

Research Call Number

JFD 07-290