The best creative nonfiction
By: edited by Lee Gutkind
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780393330250
Subjects: American prose literature; Prose literature; American Reportage literature
Description: Collects creative nonfiction stories selected from blogs, literary magazines, science journals, and other publications; featuring writing from Edwidge Danticat, Julianna Baggott, Sean Rowe, and others.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Agent of change / -- Lee Gutkind; title: An insider's guide to jailhouse cuisine : dining in  -- Sean Rowe; title: Literary murder  -- Julianna Baggott; title: Rock dust  -- Stan Badgett; title: Show, don't tell  -- The education of Oronte Churm (InsideHigherEd.com); title: The rope swing, the swastika, the oldest whale I know  -- Scott Black; title: Table of figures  -- Brenda Miller; title: Okahandja lessons  -- Emily Rapp; title: No other joy  -- DBDSN (steenablog.blogspot.com); title: First year  -- Laura Bramon Good; title: Letter from a Japanese crematorium  -- Marie Mutsuki Mockett; title: Uncle Moïse  -- Edwidge Danticat; title: The face od Seung-Hui Cho  -- Wesley Yang; title: The poet's mother's deathbed conversion  -- Jeffreyethanlee.blogstot.com -- The storyteller / -- Planetmexicali.squarespace.com; title: Lavish dwarf entertainment  -- Alice Dreger; title: Chicago transit priority  -- Wood-Tang.com; title: Grasshopper  -- Margaret Conway; title: What comes out  -- Dawnelle Wilkie; title: (names have been changed)  -- Steal Your Imagination (web.mac.com/irishdoyle); title: Community college  -- Tim Bascom; title: Cantata 147 : the final chorale  -- Amy Andrews; title: I can't answer  -- Spade's a spade, or the burden of being right (open.salon.com); title: An open letter  -- First draft: laying down the words (kathyrhodes.wordpress.com); title: A perfunctory affair  -- Chris Cobb; title: Return to Hayneville -- Gregory Orr.