The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales From a Strange Time
by Hunter S. Thompson · 6 Nov 2003 · 893pp · 282,706 words
Houston and Dave Smith -- was so complete and often so rife with personal intensity that the collected Smith/Houston file reads like a finely-detailed non-fiction novel. Read separately, the articles are merely good journalism. But as a document, arranged chronologically, the file is more than the sum of its parts. The
You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing
by John Scalzi · 28 Jan 2007 · 168pp · 9,044 words
a clef just as much as actual memoirs; indeed, they feel naughtier because you know the sex scenes are going to be better written. Writing non-fiction novels only works when you are Truman Capote, or intermittently if you're Tom Wolfe. I may be going out on a limb here, not having
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
by Amitav Ghosh · 16 Jan 2018
and the New York Times Review of Books. When the subject of climate change appears in these publications, it is almost always in relation to non-fiction; novels and short stories are very rarely to be glimpsed within this horizon. Indeed, it could even be said that fiction that deals with climate change
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
offer a Master of Fine Arts. - John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Edmund White calls this true-crime story “the best nonfiction novel since ‘In Cold Blood’ and a lot more entertaining”; it remains on the New York Times best-seller list for four years; tour buses descend
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
the events using the omniscient voice of a novel—or, to use Capote’s memorable phrase, a “nonfiction novel.” “My theory,” said Capote, “is that you can take any subject and make it into a nonfiction novel. By that I don’t mean a historical or documentary novel—those are popular and interesting but
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magazine. When Random House published it in book form as In Cold Blood, it heralded the arrival of a new form, what Capote called the “nonfiction novel,” and netted its author $2 million in paperback and film sales. Even after the story was published to great fanfare, William Shawn remained uncomfortable with
How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey Into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
by Richard Cohen · 16 May 2016
Ondaatje argues: “Many books open with an author’s assurance of order. One slipped into their waters with a silent paddle….But [unlike works of nonfiction] novels commenced with hesitation or chaos. Readers were never fully in balance. A door a lock a weir opened and they rushed through, one hand holding
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From the Best in the World
by Timothy Ferriss · 14 Jun 2017 · 579pp · 183,063 words
two books and you will get a great answer to a question that has baffled mankind for millions of years: What is life? Watson’s “nonfiction novel” was an astonishing literary achievement, and it was about the greatest scientific discovery of the 20th century. Dawkins’ “stranger-than-fiction” argument turned evolutionary biology
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
by Benjamin Dreyer · 15 Jan 2019 · 297pp · 69,467 words
a dog. few in number fiction novel Appalling. A novel is a work of fiction. That’s why it’s called a novel. That said, “nonfiction novel” is not the oxymoron it might at first seem. The term refers to the genre pioneered—though not, as is occasionally averred, invented—by Truman
But What if We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present as if It Were the Past
by Chuck Klosterman · 6 Jun 2016 · 281pp · 78,317 words
fox can place those facts into a logical context. The fox can see how history and politics intertwine, and he can knit them into a nonfiction novel that makes narrative sense. But the fox can’t see the future, so he assumes it does not exist. The fox is a naïve realist
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is not the case that we are born equal and that the conditions of life make our lives unequal,” writes Karl Ove Knausgaard in his nonfiction novel My Struggle: Book 2. “It is the opposite, we are born unequal, and the conditions of life make us more equal.” The apparent unfairness of
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition
by Steven Levy · 18 May 2010 · 598pp · 183,531 words
playing games,” he writes in an email. A sailing enthusiast, he’s written three books on his cruising adventures, and Roberta is working on a nonfiction novel about the Irish immigration.) A new generation of hackers has emerged, techies who don’t see business as an enemy but the means through which
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
by Daniel C. Dennett · 15 Jan 1995 · 846pp · 232,630 words
Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
by George Gilder · 30 Apr 1981 · 590pp · 153,208 words
Lonely Planet Pocket Bruges & Brussels
by Lonely Planet and Helena Smith · 1 Nov 2012
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
by Fran Lebowitz · 8 Nov 1994 · 208pp · 67,890 words