The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction
10 best books like The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction (Robert L. Root Jr.): The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read & Write Poetry, Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction, Writing Creative Nonfiction, Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, The Best American Essays 2012, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative, The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students, The Best American Essays 2003
| Author | Ellen Bryant Voigt |
| ISBN | 1555975313 |
With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning....
| Author | Priscilla Long |
| ISBN | 0984242104 |
Suitable for both beginning and advanced writers of fiction and nonfiction, The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life distills 20 years of teaching and creative thought by the well-published author Priscilla Long. The Writer's Portable Mentor helps writers understand...
| Author | Sage Cohen |
| ISBN | 1582975574 |
Writing Poetry for Everyday Life
"Poetry is just the evidence of life," says Leonard Cohen. "If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
You don't need an advanced degree to reap the rewards of a rich poetic life–writing poetry is within the reach of everyone. Poet Sage...
| Author | Judith Kitchen |
| ISBN | 0393326004 |
In the years since the perennially popular In Short and In Brief were published, readers have come to delight in the deft focus of the succinct piece we now call The Short. Extending this trend, Short Takes presents over seventy-five writers whose range and style demonstrate the myriad ways we humans...
| Author | Carolyn Forché |
| ISBN | 1884910505 |
Experience the power and the promise of working in today' most exciting literary form: Creative Nonfiction"Writing Creative Nonfiction" presents more than thirty essays examining every key element of the craft, from researching ideas and structuring the story, to reportage and personal reflection....
| Author | Mark Kramer |
| ISBN | 0452287553 |
Inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything...
| Author | Robert Atwan |
| ISBN | 0547840098 |
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special...
| Author | Vivian Gornick |
| ISBN | 0374528586 |
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love
All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can...
| Author | Heather Sellers |
| ISBN | 0312436475 |
The Practice of Creative Writing is designed for all students in the introductory course, including those who may never take another writing class. Its message is, simply put: you can do this, and it's worthwhile to try. Heather Sellers, who writes in multiple genres herself, has developed an approach...
| Author | Anne Fadiman |
| ISBN | 0618341617 |
Since 1986, The Best American Essays has gathered the most interesting and provocative writing of the year, establishing a firm place as the leading annual of its kind. The volume is edited each year by an esteemed writer who brings a fresh eye to the selections. Previous editors have included Elizabeth...
| Author | Bret Anthony Johnston |
| ISBN | 0812975480 |
You already have the tools to become a gifted writer; what you need is the spark. Harvard creative writing professor and acclaimed author Bret Anthony Johnston brings you an irresistible interactive guide to the craft of narrative writing. From developing characters to building conflict, from mastering...
| Author | Lee Gutkind |
| ISBN | 0393065618 |
Writers of memoir and narrative nonfiction are experiencing difficult days with the discovery that some well-known works in the genre contain exaggerations—or are partially fabricated. But what are the parameters of creative nonfiction? Keep It Real begins by defining creative nonfiction....
| Author | John D'Agata |
| ISBN | 1555975321 |
An expansive and exhilarating world tour of innovative nonfiction writing
I think the reason we've never pinpointed the real beginning to this genre is because we've never agreed on what the genre even is. Do we read nonfiction in order to receive information, or do we read it to experience...
| Author | Adam Gopnik |
| ISBN | 0618983228 |
Here you will find the finest essays “judiciously selected from countless publications” (Chicago Tribune), ranging from The New Yorker and Harper’s to Swink and Pinch. In his introduction to this year’s edition, Adam Gopnik finds that great essays have “text and inner text, personal...
| Author | Jon Franklin |
| ISBN | 0452272955 |
The new "nonfiction"—the adaptation of storytelling techniques to journalistic articles in the manner of Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, and John McPhee—is an innovative genre that has been awarded virtually every Pulitzer Prize for literary journalism since 1979. And now Jon Franklin, himself...
| Author | Brenda Miller |
| ISBN | 0072512784 |
This is a great book, and if you look for it, try for the earlier edition with the anthology in the back. The most recent edition took the essays out and that makes no sense. Why read about how to write creative nonfiction and not immediately have an example?
At this point I have read most of the book...
For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay...
| Author | Kitty Burns Florey |
| ISBN | 1933633107 |
Sister Bernadette's Dog Barking: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
154 pp. "Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences is a 2006 book by author Kitty Burns Florey about the history and art of sentence diagramming. Florey learned...
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0393971767 |
As a teacher, Oates emphasizes the importance of reading widely with enthusiasm, pleasure, and purpose. Telling Stories reflects this emphasis, introducing students to a variety of models for their own writing and encouraging them to concentrate on details, revise often, make material their...
| Author | Edwidge Danticat |
| ISBN | 0547479778 |
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites . A special...
| Author | Danell Jones |
| ISBN | 0553806505 |
In this brilliantly imagined book, author Danell Jones mines the diaries, essays, correspondence, and fiction of a literary legend to create an unforgettable master class in the art of writing. Using Virginia Woolf’s own words, this inspiring, instructive, and entertaining guide will...
| Author | Louis Menand |
| ISBN | 0618357092 |
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
| Author | Susan Orlean |
| ISBN | 0618357130 |
The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty...
| Author | Lex Williford |
| ISBN | 1416531742 |
From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism - this unique, indispensable anthology brings together fifty unforgettable works from all genres of creative nonfiction. Selected by five hundred writers, English professors, and creative writing teachers from across the country,...
