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Overview

Experience the power and the promise of working in today' most exciting literary form: Creative Nonfiction

Writing Creative Nonfiction presents more than thirty essays examining every key element of the craft, from researching ideas and structuring the story, to reportage and personal reflection. You'll learn from some of today's top creative nonfiction writers, including:

Terry Tempest Williams - Analyze your motivation for writing, its value, and its strength.

Alan Cheuse - Discover how interesting, compelling essays can be drawn from every corner of your life and the world in which you live.

Phillip Lopate - Build your narrator&#150yourself&#150into a fully fleshed-out character, giving your readers a clearer, more compelling idea of who is speaking and why they should listen.

Robin Hemley - Develop a narrative strategy for structuring your story and making it cohesive.

Carolyn Forche - Master the journalistic ethics of creative nonfiction.

Dinty W. Moore - Use satire, exaggeration, juxtaposition, and other forms of humor in creative nonfiction.

Philip Gerard - Understand the narrative stance&#150why and how an author should, or should not, enter into the story.

Through insightful prompts and exercises, these contributors help make the challenge of writing creative nonfiction&#150whether biography, true-life adventure, memoir, or narrative history&#150a welcome, rewarding endeavor.

You'll also find an exciting, creative nonfiction "reader" comprising the final third of the book, featuring pieces from Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, Beverly Lowry, Phillip Lopate, and more&#150selections so extraordinary, they will teach, delight, inspire, and entertain you for years to come!

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781884910500
  • Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
  • Publication date: 5/28/2001
  • Pages: 400
  • Sales rank: 200,710
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 0.99 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Creative Nonfiction: An Adventure in Lyric, Fact, and Story 1
I. The Art, the Craft, the Business
Why I Write 6
But Tell It Slant: From Poetry to Prose and Back Again 8
A Braided Heart: Shaping the Lyric Essay 14
Saying Good-Bye to "Once Upon a Time," or Implementing Postmodernism in Creative Nonfiction 25
Finding a Story, or Using the Whole Pig 34
Writing Personal Essays: On the Necessity of Turning Oneself Into a Character 38
Researching Your Own Life 45
Taking Yourself Out of the Story: Narrative Stance and the Upright Pronoun 50
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner 57
As Time Goes By: Creating Biography 67
Twelve Years and Counting: Writing Biography 85
Not the Killing but Why 97
Every Hell Is Different: Notes on War Writing 101
The "New" Literature 104
Surviving Overseas 114
The Comfortable Chair: Using Humor in Creative Nonfiction 122
Getting Published 130
Avoiding Self-Censorship: A Guide to the Detection of Legal Land Mines 140
II. Aftershocks--Responses to the Genre
Learning to Breathe After the Memoir 158
Excerpts From Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer 162
One Nation, Under the Weather 164
Becoming the Godfather of Creative Nonfiction 170
III. Creative Nonfiction Reader
The Woman Who Slept With One Eye Open 182
Basha Leah 191
Excerpt from "Tacos and Manna" 205
Portrait of My Body 214
What They Don't Tell You About Hurricanes 223
Excerpt From Irving Berlin: A Life in Song 230
It was a time of hope, that was the thing (1927-1930) 240
The Shadow Knows 256
All Things Censored: The Poem NPR Doesn't Want You to Hear 270
Prisoner AM-8335: A Postscript 277
Sarajevo I 283
Emergence 299
Ah, Wilderness! Humans, Hawks, and Environmental Correctness on the Muddy Rio Grande 307
Maps 319
Murder 327
Going Back to Bisbee 331
Flying in the Middle of Art 357
Contributors 368
Index 374

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