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Creating nonfiction : twenty essays and interviews with the writers / edited by Jen Hirt and Erin Murphy.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Excelsior Editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American essays--21st century.
- American essays.
- Reportage literature, American.
- Creative nonfiction.
- Authors--Interviews.
- Authors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : Excelsior Editions, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A diverse collection of essays and companion interviews that offer insight into the inspiration, drafting, and revision process.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; One: Kestrel Avenue; Interview with Cheryl Strayed; Two: Free to Good Home; Interview with Lori Jakiela; Three: Tooth and Claw; Interview with Dinty W. Moore; Four: The Collection; Interview with Mary Quade; Five: Footnotesi & Endnotesii; Interview with Michael Martone; Six: How to Cure a Fright; Interview with Kelle Groom; Seven: The City of the Century; Interview with Kristen Radtke; Eight: Apocalypse, Darling; Wasteland Oasis-Indiana, 2008; Byway, Skyway-Illinois/Indiana, 2008; Trouble-Chicago, 1985; The Cruelest Month-Postindustrial North, 2008
- Enter the Chapel-Indiana, 2008The Apocalypse, Darling-Interior Landscapes, 1959 (and counting); The Bee-U-Tee-Full Old Country-Indiana, 2008; The We Who-Indiana, 2008; Unreal City-Minneapolis, Yesterday; Lilacs Out of a Dead Land-Indiana, 2008; Laquearia-Indiana, 2008; O City, City-Minneapolis, 2007; The Tattoo Merchant-Inside an Inaccurate Indiana Fantasy, 2008; Post Nuptial-Indiana Golf Course, 2008; Post Apocalypse-The Rain, Indiana, 2008; Postmortem-Re-Migrations, 2008; Interview with Barrie Jean Borich; Nine: Birth Geographic; Interview with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Ten: How to Give a Baby a BathInterview with Marcia Aldrich; Eleven: Seven Fathoms Down; 1 fathom/6 feet; 2 fathoms/12 feet; 3 fathoms/18 feet; 4 fathoms/24 feet; 5 fathoms/30 feet; 6 fathoms/36 feet; 7 fathoms/42 feet; Interview with Steven Church; Twelve: Slow Burn; Interview with Erin Murphy; Thirteen: Gunslinging; Interview with Angela Morales; Fourteen: The Third Step; Interview with Sheryl St. Germain; Fifteen: My Wobbly Bicycle, 29; Interview with Fleda Brown; Sixteen: Students of the Route; I. Low Tide, Flye Point Peninsula, Downeast Maine
- II. Elements of Style :An Encounter at E. B. White's Grave, Brooklin, MaineIII. Stop Here for Maps: Deer Isle and the Tennis Preserve; Interview with Jen Hirt; Seventeen: Terremoto; Interview with Toby Thompson; Eighteen: Of Ships and Men; Interview with Cameron Conaway; Nineteen: How to Make Sense of the Postcolonial Nation-State; Definition Essay; A Brief History of Nigeria; Country; People; Language; National Resources; The End: Love, Pain, or Patriotism; Works Cited; Interview with Faith Adiele; Tewnty: YouTube's Winged Chariot; Interview with Jeffrey Hammond; Acknowledgments
- ContributorsIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438461175
- 1438461178
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