You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--From Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between
by Lee Gutkind · 13 Aug 2012 · 347pp · 90,234 words
reality, were publishing their work a half century before Tom Wolfe—so what was new about the “new journalism”? Recently the word “narrative”—as in “narrative journalism” and “narrative nonfiction”—has gained popularity. Everyone has personal stories or narratives: politicians, movie stars, businessmen and women. Yet creative nonfiction does not strictly adhere to one
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’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Is There No Place on Earth for Me? We could all make such a list of books and writers whose spellbinding narrative nonfiction has helped influence public opinion while remaining true to fact: Rachel Carson, John Hersey, Ernest Hemingway, Ernie Pyle. They were all reporters. Not D’Agata
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have gotten in trouble for that kind of thing, on occasion.) 1993 First issue of Creative Nonfiction, a literary journal devoted exclusively to long-form narrative nonfiction, is published. - “Is It Fiction? Is It Nonfiction? And Why Doesn’t Anyone Care?” New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani laments, “We are daily assaulted
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, Margaret Moore, Dinty W. Moore, Michael Morris, Edmund My Life (Clinton) Naked (Sedaris) Names, changing Narrative, parallel. See also Frame Narrative historians, recreation and Narrative journalism Narrative line Narrative nonfiction Narrator, trustworthiness of Nasar, Sylvia Nasdijj Nash, John National Book Award National Book Critics Awards National Endowment for the Arts Navel gazing New journalism
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
by Andrew Ross Sorkin · 14 Oct 2025 · 664pp · 166,312 words
wisdom from some of my literary heroes. Walter Isaacson’s friendship and early guidance was priceless. Over lunch, Erik Larson offered a master class in narrative nonfiction writing. I also need to thank many others who helped along the way—especially some people I never had the chance to meet in person
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson · 6 Sep 2010 · 740pp · 227,963 words
, the narrative journalism conference in Aarhus, Denmark, the University of Nevada at Reno, the University of Mississippi at Oxford, and, for three years, as the James M. Cox Professor of Journalism at Emory University. I am grateful to Boston University, where I now am on faculty, for its role in promoting narrative nonfiction such
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at Princeton University and as the James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism at Emory University. She is currently Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University. During the Great Migration, her parents journeyed from Georgia and southern Virginia to Washington, D.C., where she was born and reared
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--And What It Means for America's Power Grid
by Katherine Blunt · 29 Aug 2022 · 470pp · 107,074 words
for it. My editor, Trish Daly, made the narrative immeasurably better with thoughtful questions and suggestions. Thank you. A nonfiction book, like any work of narrative journalism, is only as good as its sources. Thank you to the dozens of former employees, regulators, and consultants who talked with me about PG&E
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to my parents, Rob and Margaret, and my sister, Julianne, for your love and support. A Note on Sourcing This book is a work of narrative nonfiction, informed by more than two hundred interviews with former PG&E executives, employees, and consultants, as well as California regulators, politicians, and attorneys, conducted over
Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd · 15 Jan 2013 · 160pp · 53,435 words
other, even if it is just the latest fashion in sunglasses. In the family of writers, essayists play poor cousins to writers of fiction or narrative nonfiction. But great things have been accomplished in essays, which are the natural medium of ideas. Essays yield many of the nuggets of wisdom that inform
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tiresomeness of an excessively linear, one-thing-after-another narrative. An exterior should of course be interesting in itself. Like everything in a book of narrative nonfiction, it ought to serve at least two purposes, preferably unstated. Sometimes parts of a story have to be “floated.” This is short for “floated in
The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution
by Marc Weingarten · 12 Dec 2006 · 363pp · 123,076 words
. In the forties, when Felker was in high school, The New Yorker was word-perfect, everything he could ever ask for in a magazine. The narrative nonfiction of Hersey, Ross, Liebling, and other New Yorker contributors represented the apex of creative journalism, the way good stories should be written. It was also
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an award-winning book about it called Newjack. Jon Krakauer accompanied a mountaineering expedition to Mount Everest on assignment from Outside magazine and produced a narrative nonfiction classic, Into Thin Air. Barbara Ehrenreich posed as a domestic laborer and told the hard-luck stories of her fellow workers in Nickel and Dimed
The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
by Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans · 11 Mar 2024 · 405pp · 113,895 words
Gap 12. Presente EPILOGUE: The Kindness of Clay Afterword: Memento Mori About This Project Acknowledgments Notes Index _146428706_ AUTHORS’ NOTE .. This is a work of narrative nonfiction. Dialogue and events were witnessed firsthand or reconstructed based on interviews, archives, and published accounts. The unclaimed are all too soon forgotten. Out of respect
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From the Best in the World
by Timothy Ferriss · 14 Jun 2017 · 579pp · 183,063 words
and an inch deep.” Steven Pressfield TW: @spressfield stevenpressfield.com STEVEN PRESSFIELD has made a professional life in five different writing arenas—advertising, screenwriting, fiction, narrative nonfiction, and self-help. He is the best-selling author of The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, The Afghan Campaign, and The Lion’s
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. I strongly recommend both books. But if you just want to forget about the future and lose yourself in the book that forever changed how narrative nonfiction is written, read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six
The Taking of Getty Oil: Pennzoil, Texaco, and the Takeover Battle That Made History
by Steve Coll · 12 Jun 2017 · 645pp · 190,680 words
four years,” Liedtke said. “But it was something that had to be done.” Bibliographical Note The use of recollected and reconstructed dialogue in works of narrative nonfiction, while increasingly widespread, is in many ways problematic. First off, there is, or should be, the question of accuracy. In the absence of verbatim transcripts
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tremendous resonance. So he wrote An American Tragedy, a novel. If he had lived in our time, he might well have written a work of narrative nonfiction, complete with reconstructed dialogue, and then sold the miniseries rights to one of the networks. So the author has to make choices. They are not
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? What rules did the author follow with sources? What standards did the author adhere to in the writing? What is surprising about contemporary works of narrative nonfiction, many of them written by excellent journalists, is that authors so rarely answer these questions for the reader, and if they do, their answers are
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
by Benjamin Dreyer · 15 Jan 2019 · 297pp · 69,467 words
editors: Never do this.) *3 Let’s please allow that I’m using the term “fiction” here to include as well the various flavors of narrative nonfiction that spring from a writer’s memory banks, rather than the kind of formal reportage that coalesces from years of archival research and sheaves of
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