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In fact: the best of creative nonfiction

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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

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Series Title

Creative nonfiction (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Call Number

SS 814.508 GUT i

Publisher

New York : W.W. Norton & Company., 2005

Collation

xxxvi, 440 p. ; 21 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780393326659

Classification

814.508

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Subject(s)

United States
Reportage literature, American
American essays
American prose literature
Journalism
Creative nonfiction, American

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Statement of Responsibility

editor Lee Gutkind, introduction by Annie Dillard.

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