Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: I & Eye by Bich Nguyen
This anthology brings together 50 diverse works of contemporary creative nonfiction, from memoirs to personal essays to literary journalism, along with 15 craft essays.
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Preface. Introduction. The I. The Eye. The Idea of Truth. The Use of Literary Elements. I. PORTRAITS. Introduction. The I. Bernard Cooper, Picking Plums. Tony Earley, Somehow Form a Family. Lucy Grealy, Mirrorings. Jamaica Kincaid, Biography of a Dress. Le Thi Diem Thuy, The Gangster We Are All Looking For. John Edgar Wideman, from Brothers and Keepers. The Eye. Beverly Lowry, Secret Ceremonies of Love and Death. Susan Orlean, Meet the Shaps. Tom Wolfe, Yeager from The Right Stuff. Craft Essays. Tracy Kidder, Making the Truth Believable. Phillip Lopate, On the Necessity of Turning Oneself into a Character. Scott Russell Sanders, The Singular First Person. II. PLACE. Introduction. The I. Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing. Edwidge Danticat, Westbury Court. Stuart Dybek, Field Trips. Chang-rae Lee, Coming Home Again. Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking. Naomi Shihab Nye, Thank You in Arabic. The Eye. John McPhee, The Search for Marvin Gardens. James Alan McPherson, Saturday Night, and Sunday Morning. Sarah Vowell, What He Said There. Craft Essays. Andre Aciman, A Literary Pilgrim Progresses to the Past. Vivian Gornick, from The Situation and the Story. Jonathan Raban, Notes from the Road. III. CREATIVITY AND THE ARTS. Introduction. The I. Meghan Daum, Music is My Bag. Dagoberto Gilb, Steinbeck. Wayne Koestenbaum, Me, with the Stars in My Eyes. David Sedaris, The Drama Bug. Charles Simic, The Necessity of Poetry. Susan Allen Toth, Cinematypes: Going to the Movies. The Eye. Saul Bellow, Graven Images. Leslie Marmon Silko, Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective. John Updike, Fast Art. Bret Lott, Against Technique. Patricia Hampl, Reviewing Anne Frank. Craft Essays. Cynthia Ozick, Portrait of the Essay as a Warm Body. IV. NATURE & SCIENCE. Introduction. The I. Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces. Edward Hoagland, The Courage of Turtles. Linda Hogan, The Bats. Richard McCann, The Resurrectionist. Floyd Skloot, Wild in the Woods: Confessions fo a Demented Man. Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women. The Eye. Diane Ackerman, The Psychopharmacology of Chocolate. Atul Gawande, Final Cut. Stephen Jay Gould, A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse. Craft Essays. Annie Dillard, Seeing. Barry Lopez, Landscape and Narrative. Edward O. Wilson, Life is a Narrative. V. CULTURE & SOCIETY. Introduction. The I. Dorothy Allison, from Two or Three Things I Know for Sure. Margaret Atwood, The Female Body. Gerald Early, Life With Daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant. Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman. Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America. Alice Walker, Becoming What We're Called. The Eye. Lawrence Otis Graham, Invisible Man. Michael Herr, Illumination Rounds. Susan Sontag, from AIDS and Its Metaphors. Craft Essays. Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook. Barbara Ehrenreich, Getting Ready from Nickel-and-Dimed. Lee Gutkind, The Creative Nonfiction Police. Alternate Table of Contents: Creative Nonfiction Forms. Appendix I: Writing Prompts. Appendix II: Suggestions for Further Reading.
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CIN0321198174G
9780321198174
0321198174
Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: I & Eye by Bich Nguyen
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Pearson Education (US)
20040903
400
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