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This best-selling anthology is a comprehensive and indispensable introduction to the way creative nonfiction is written today. The Fourth Genre offers the most comprehensive, teachable, and current introduction available today to the cutting-edge, evolving genre of creative nonfiction. While acknowledging the literary impulse of nonfiction to be a fourth genre equivalent to poetry, fiction, and drama, this text focuses on subgenres of the nonfiction form, including memoir, nature writing, personal essays, literary journalism, cultural criticism... MORE

Alternative Contents: Forms and Processes of Creative Nonfiction	p. xi
Preface: Beginning the Conversation	p. xv
Introduction: Creative Nonfiction, The Fourth Genre	p. xxiii
Writing Creative Nonfiction	p. 1
�Out There�	p. 3
�Ode to Every Thing�	p. 8
�The Answer That Increasingly Appeals�	p. 11
�Fiction�	p. 19
�Soundtrack�	p. ... MORE29
�Les Cruel Shoes�	p. 31
�Befriending Barbie�	p. 35
�I'm Just Getting to the Disturbing Part�	p. 46
�Silent Dancing�	p. 54
�A Little While�	p. 61
�On the Fringes of the Physical World�	p. 64
�Welcome to Afghanistan�	p. 73
�Into the Gulf: A Journal-Day 10: Beyond the Oiled Pelican�	p. 79
�Northeast Direct�	p. 83
�On the Bus�	p. 87
�Red Sky at Morning�	p. 91
�Stripped for Parts�	p. 95
�13,1977,21�	p. 101
�Portrait of My Body�	p. 107
�I Met a Man Who Has Seen the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and This Is What He Told Me�	p. 115
�Some Things About That Day�	p. 118
�Mother's Day�	p. 120
�The Search for Marvin Gardens�	p. 128
�Geas�	p. 137
�In Plain Sight�	p. 147
�Grammar Lessons: The Subjunctive Mood�	p. 151
�Glaciology�	p. 162
�Celebrating Creation�	p. 167
�Knowing Where You've Been�	p. 171
�Postcards from Birobidzhan: The Life & Death & Life of the Jewish Autonomous Republic�	p. 178
�Cloud Crossing�	p. 188
�My Father Always Said�	p. 194
�An E-Book Is Not a Book, In Which I Launch the Slow Book Movement�	p. 202
�Natural History, or What Happens When We're Not Looking�	p. 204
�Chin Music�	p. 208
�Everything But Your Wits�	p. 218
�Spreading the Word�	p. 223
�How I Became a Bed-Maker�	p. 232
�Bathing�	p. 237
Talking About Creative Nonfiction	p. 241
�The Landscape of Creative Nonfiction�	p. 243
�The Art of Memoir�	p. 250
�On the Origin of the Video Essay�	p. 254
�I Think I'm Musing My Mind�	p. 258
�A Narrator Leaps Past Journalism�	p. 261
�Memory and Imagination�	p. 264
�The Art of Self�	p. 274
�The Digital Essay: An Introduction�	p. 276
�Courting the Approval of the Dead�	p. 278
�Mending Wall�	p. 292
�Days into Essays: A Self for All Seasons�	p. 296
�'Brenda Miller Has a Cold,' or: How the Lyric Essay Happens�	p. 308
�How to Live: Grandfather of the Writing We Love to Hate�	p. 315
�Collage, Montage, Mosaic, Vignette, Episode, Segment�	p. 318
�Prose Poems, Paragraphs, Brief Lyric Nonfiction�	p. 330
�Finding the Inner Story in Memoirs and Personal Essays�	p. 333
�Experimental Critical Writing�	p. 337
�(Note to Self): The Lyric Essay�	p. 342
Composing Creative Nonfiction	p. 345
�Home�	p. 347
�Unwrapping Surprises in the Personal Essay�	p. 354
�Warping Time with Montaigne�	p. 362
�Notes from a Journey Toward 'Warping Time'�	p. 368
�Lambing Midwife�	p. 376
�Gestating Memory: Capturing Narrative Details in 'Lambing Midwife'�	p. 382
�Teacher Training�	p. 388
�Composing 'Teacher Training'�	p. 394
�Zion�	p. 402
�On Writing 'Zion'�	p. 410
Notes on Authors	p. 416
Credits	p. 419
Index	p. 423
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