Writing creative nonfiction, instruction and insights from the teachers of the Associated Writing Programs, [edited by] Carolyn Forché and Philip Gerard
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Writing creative nonfiction, instruction and insights from the teachers of the Associated Writing Programs, [edited by] Carolyn Forché and Philip Gerard
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non fiction
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Writing creative nonfiction
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[edited by] Carolyn Forché and Philip Gerard
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instruction and insights from the teachers of the Associated Writing Programs
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Why I write / Terry Tempest Williams -- But tell it slant : from poetry to prose and back again / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- A braided heart : shaping the lyric essay / Brenda Miller -- Saying good-bye to Once upon a time, or, Implementing postmodernism in creative nonfiction / Laura Wexler -- Finding a story, or, Using the whole pig / Alan Cheuse -- Writing personal essays : on the necessity of turning oneself into a character / Phillip Lopate -- Research your own life / Michael Pearson -- Taking yourself out of the story : narrative stance and the upright pronoun / Philip Gerard -- The loneliness of the long-distance runner / Robin Hemley -- As time goes by : creating biography / Philip Furia -- Twelve years and counting : writing biography / Honor Moore -- Not the killing but why / Beverly Lowry -- Every hell is different : notes on war writing / Christopher Merrill -- The "new" literature / Carolyn Forché -- Surviving overseas / Bob Reiss -- The comfortable chair : using humor in creative nonfiction / Dinty W. Moore -- Getting published / Stanley L. Colbert -- Avoiding self-censorship : a guide to the detection of legal land mines / Nicholar S. Hentoff and Harvey A. Silverglate -- Learning to breathe after the memoir / E. Ethelbert Miller -- Excerpts from Fathering words : the making of an African American writer / E. Ethelbert Miller -- One nation, under the weather / Lauren Slater -- Becoming the godfather of creative nonfiction / Lee Gutkind -- The woman who slept with one eye open / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Basha Leah / Brenda Miller -- Excerpt from Tacos and manna / Alan Cheuse -- Portrait of my body / Phillip Lopate -- What they don't tell you about hurricanes / Philip Gerard -- Excerpt from Irving Berlin : a life in song / Philip Furia -- It was a time of hope, that was the thing (1927-1930) / Honor Moore -- The shadow knows / Beverly Lowry -- All things censored : the poem NPR doesn't want you to hear / Martín Espada -- Prisoner AM-8335 : a postscript / Martín Espada -- Sarajevo / Christopher Merrill -- Emergence / Carolyn Forché -- Ah, wilderness! Humans, hawks and environmental correctness on the muddy Rio Grande / Dinty W. Moore -- Maps / Julie Checkoway -- Murder / Barry Lopez -- Going back to Bisbee / Richard Shelton -- Flying in the middle of art / Annie Dillard
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