Authors: Lee Gutkind (Editor), Annie Dillard
ISBN-13: 9780393326659, ISBN-10: 0393326659
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Lee Gutkind is the founder and editor of the literary journal Creative Nonfiction and a pioneer in the field of narrative nonfiction. Writer-in-residence at Arizona State University, Gutkind is also the editor of In Fact, the author of Almost Human, and has written books about baseball, health care, travel, and technology.
Annie Dillard is a noted novelist and poet.
Twenty-five arresting selections from the groundbreaking journal that defined a genre.
Introduction : notes for young writers | ||
The creative nonfiction police? | ||
Three spheres | 3 | |
Looking at Emmett Till | 24 | |
Shunned | 49 | |
An album quilt | 71 | |
Dinner at Uncle Boris's | 85 | |
Prayer dogs | 92 | |
What is it we really harvestin' here? | 109 | |
The brown study | 119 | |
Killing wolves | 133 | |
Being Brians | 163 | |
Language at play | 174 | |
Finders keepers : the story of Joey Coyle | 189 | |
Notes from a difficult case | 226 | |
Adventures in celestial navigation | 245 | |
Leaving Babylon : a walk through the Jewish divorce ceremony | 269 | |
Gray area : thinking with a damaged brain | 288 | |
Joe stopped by | 307 | |
In the woods | 318 | |
Sa'm Pedi | 331 | |
Going native | 356 | |
Chimera | 368 | |
Mixed-blood stew | 382 | |
Why I ride | 395 | |
Delivering Lily | 419 |