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Fourth Genre, The: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction

by: Root, Robert L.; Steinberg, Michael J.

Fourth Genre, The: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction

by: Root, Robert L.; Steinberg, Michael J.

ISBN 13:
9780321434845
ISBN 10:
0321434846
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2007
Publisher: Longman
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Summary

This best-selling anthology is a comprehensive and indispensable introduction to the way creative nonfiction is written today.

Alternative Contents: Subgenres of Creative Nonfiction

Preface: Beginning the Conversation

Introduction: Creative Nonfiction, The Fourth Genre

xxiii

PART 1 Writing Creative Nonfiction

(324)

``Dumpling''

(5)

Angela M. Balcita

``The Ashes of August''

(13)

Kim Barnes

``Out of the Garden''

(14)

Jocelyn Bartkevicius

``Out There''

(5)

Jo Ann Beard

``The Answer That Increasingly Appeals''

(8)

Robin Black

``The Unwanted Child''

(11)

Mary Clearman Blew

``Befriending Barbie''

(11)

Shari Caudron

``Independence Day, Manley Hot Springs, Alaska''

(7)

Lisa D. Chavez

``Silent Dancing''

(7)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

``On the Fringes of the Physical World''

(9)

Meghan Daum

``Living Like Weasels''

(3)

Annie Dillard

``Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog''

(5)

Kitty Burns Florey

``Northeast Direct''

103

(4)

Dagoberto Gilb

``The People on the Bus''

107

(6)

Adam Gopnick

``On the Bus''

113

(4)

Vivian Gornick

``Parish Streets''

117

(8)

Patricia Hampl

``Fine Distinctions''

125

(8)

Barbara Hurd

``Where Worlds Collide''

133

(10)

Pico Iyer

``Stripped for Parts''

143

(6)

Jennifer Kahn

``Life in Motion''

149

(5)

Nicole Lamy

``13, 1977, 21''

154

(6)

Jonathan Lethem

``Portrait of My Body''

160

(8)

Phillip Lopate

``Brothers''

168

(4)

Bret Lott

``Good-bye to All This''

172

(14)

Rebecca McClanahan

``The Search for Marvin Gardens''

186

(9)

John McPhee

``The Queimada''

195

(6)

Michele Morano

``Three Pokes of a Thistle''

201

(4)

Naomi Shihab Nye

``Lifelike''

205

(7)

Susan Orlean

``Animal Allies''

212

(6)

Brenda Petersen

``That Shining Place: Crete, 1966''

218

(10)

Simone Poirier-Bures

``Virtually Romance: A Discourse on Love in the Information Age''

228

(10)

Wendy Rawlings

``Celebrating Creation''

238

(4)

Chet Raymo

``Knowing Where You've Been''

242

(7)

Robert L. Root, Jr.

``How to Play''

249

(7)

Arthur Saltzman

``Cloud Crossing''

256

(6)

Scott Russell Sanders

``Pliny and the Mountain Mouse''

262

(7)

Reg Saner

``My Father Always Said''

269

(8)

Mimi Schwartz

``Fittings''

277

(7)

Floyd Skloot

``Chin Music''

284

(10)

Michael Steinberg

``Going to the Movies''

294

(3)

Susan Allen Toth

``Undressing Victoria''

297

(12)

Erika Vidal

``Reflection Rag: Uncle Joe, Roberto Clemente, and I''

309

(16)

Christine White

PART 2 Talking About Creative Nonfiction

325

(122)

``The Landscape of Creative Nonfiction''

327

(7)

Jocelyn Bartkevicius

``The Art of Memoir''

334

(4)

Mary Clearman Blew

``To Fashion a Text''

338

(10)

Annie Dillard

``The Intelligent Heart''

348

(3)

Patricia Foster

``A Narrator Leaps Past Journalism''

351

(3)

Vivian Gornick

``Memory and Imagination''

354

(10)

Patricia Hampl

``The Art of Translation''

364

(6)

Steven Harvey

``Courting the Approval of the Dead''

370

(14)

Tracy Kidder

``What Happened to the Personal Essay?''

384

(8)

Phillip Lopate

``Toward a Definition of Creative Nonfiction''

392

(7)

Bret Lott

``The Other Creative Writing''

399

(5)

Michael Pearson

``Collage, Montage, Mosaic, Vignette, Episode, Segment''

404

(12)

Robert L. Root, Jr.

``The Singular First Person''

416

(9)

Scott Russell Sanders

``Memoir? Fiction? Where's the Line?''

425

(6)

Mimi Schwartz

``Nonfiction in First Person, Without Apology''

431

(7)

Natalia Rachel Singer

``Finding the Inner Story in Memoirs and Personal Essays''

438

(4)

Michael Steinberg

``Experimental Critical Writing''

442

(5)

Marianna Torgovnick

PART 3 Composing Creative Nonfiction

447

(46)

``Warping Time with Montaigne''

451

(6)

Emily D. Chase

``Notes from a Journey toward `Warping Time'''

457

(8)

Emily D. Chase

``Teacher Training''

465

(6)

Mary Elizabeth Pope

``Composing `Teacher Training'''

471

(8)

Mary Elizabeth Pope

``Zion''

479

(8)

Maureen Stanton

``On Writing `Zion'''

487

(6)

Maureen Stanton

Alternative Contents: Approaches to Writing and Discussing Creative Nonfiction

493

(5)

Notes on Authors

498

(3)

Credits

501

(4)

Index

505

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