Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction

6 best books like Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction (Jack R. Hart): The Art of Memoir, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, Writing the Memoir, An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk, Mayhem, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

The Art of Memoir
AuthorMary Karr
ISBN0062223062
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.

For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning...
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
AuthorWilliam Zinsser
ISBN0060891548
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people...
AuthorJudith Barrington
ISBN0933377509
Since Writing the Memoir came out in early 1997 it has sold roughly 80,000 copies and is consistently praised as "the best book on memoir out there." It is thought-provoking, explanatory, and practical: each chapter ends with writing exercises. It covers everything from questions of truth and ethics...
An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk
AuthorAllison Schrager
ISBN0525533966
A Financial Times Book of the Month pick for April!

Is it worth swimming in shark-infested waters to surf a 50-foot, career-record wave?

Is it riskier to make an action movie or a horror movie?

Should sex workers forfeit 50 percent of their income for added security or take...
Mayhem
AuthorSarah Pinborough
ISBN1780871252
"A compulsively readable story that starts as a conventional murder mystery and morphs, by degrees, into a horrifying supernatural thriller," The Guardian said of Mayhem.

A virtuoso fantasy writer, Sarah Pinborough has won numerous awards including the British Fantasy Award for Best...
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
AuthorJonathan M. Metzl
ISBN1541644980
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help

Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe

In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans...
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