Fourth Genre, The: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction

by Root, Robert L.; Steinberg, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9780321434845
• ISBN10: 0321434846
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

This best-selling anthology is a comprehensive and indispensable introduction to the way creative nonfiction is written today.

Table of Contents

Alternative Contents: Subgenres of Creative Nonfiction	xi
Preface: Beginning the Conversation	xv
Introduction: Creative Nonfiction, The Fourth Genre	xxiii
PART 1 Writing Creative Nonfiction	1	(324)
``Dumpling''	5	(5)
Angela M. Balcita
``The Ashes of August''	10	(13)
Kim Barnes
``Out of the Garden''	23	(14)
Jocelyn Bartkevicius
``Out There''	37	(5)
Jo Ann Beard
``The Answer That Increasingly Appeals''	42	(8)
Robin Black
``The Unwanted Child''	50	(11)
Mary Clearman Blew
``Befriending Barbie''	61	(11)
Shari Caudron
``Independence Day, Manley Hot Springs, Alaska''	72	(7)
Lisa D. Chavez
``Silent Dancing''	79	(7)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
``On the Fringes of the Physical World''	86	(9)
Meghan Daum
``Living Like Weasels''	95	(3)
Annie Dillard
``Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog''	98	(5)
Kitty Burns Florey
``Northeast Direct''	103	(4)
Dagoberto Gilb
``The People on the Bus''	107	(6)
Adam Gopnick
``On the Bus''	113	(4)
Vivian Gornick
``Parish Streets''	117	(8)
Patricia Hampl
``Fine Distinctions''	125	(8)
Barbara Hurd
``Where Worlds Collide''	133	(10)
Pico Iyer
``Stripped for Parts''	143	(6)
Jennifer Kahn
``Life in Motion''	149	(5)
Nicole Lamy
``13, 1977, 21''	154	(6)
Jonathan Lethem
``Portrait of My Body''	160	(8)
Phillip Lopate
``Brothers''	168	(4)
Bret Lott
``Good-bye to All This''	172	(14)
Rebecca McClanahan
``The Search for Marvin Gardens''	186	(9)
John McPhee
``The Queimada''	195	(6)
Michele Morano
``Three Pokes of a Thistle''	201	(4)
Naomi Shihab Nye
``Lifelike''	205	(7)
Susan Orlean
``Animal Allies''	212	(6)
Brenda Petersen
``That Shining Place: Crete, 1966''	218	(10)
Simone Poirier-Bures
``Virtually Romance: A Discourse on Love in the Information Age''	228	(10)
Wendy Rawlings
``Celebrating Creation''	238	(4)
Chet Raymo
``Knowing Where You've Been''	242	(7)
Robert L. Root, Jr.
``How to Play''	249	(7)
Arthur Saltzman
``Cloud Crossing''	256	(6)
Scott Russell Sanders
``Pliny and the Mountain Mouse''	262	(7)
Reg Saner
``My Father Always Said''	269	(8)
Mimi Schwartz
``Fittings''	277	(7)
Floyd Skloot
``Chin Music''	284	(10)
Michael Steinberg
``Going to the Movies''	294	(3)
Susan Allen Toth
``Undressing Victoria''	297	(12)
Erika Vidal
``Reflection Rag: Uncle Joe, Roberto Clemente, and I''	309	(16)
Christine White
PART 2 Talking About Creative Nonfiction	325	(122)
``The Landscape of Creative Nonfiction''	327	(7)
Jocelyn Bartkevicius
``The Art of Memoir''	334	(4)
Mary Clearman Blew
``To Fashion a Text''	338	(10)
Annie Dillard
``The Intelligent Heart''	348	(3)
Patricia Foster
``A Narrator Leaps Past Journalism''	351	(3)
Vivian Gornick
``Memory and Imagination''	354	(10)
Patricia Hampl
``The Art of Translation''	364	(6)
Steven Harvey
``Courting the Approval of the Dead''	370	(14)
Tracy Kidder
``What Happened to the Personal Essay?''	384	(8)
Phillip Lopate
``Toward a Definition of Creative Nonfiction''	392	(7)
Bret Lott
``The Other Creative Writing''	399	(5)
Michael Pearson
``Collage, Montage, Mosaic, Vignette, Episode, Segment''	404	(12)
Robert L. Root, Jr.
``The Singular First Person''	416	(9)
Scott Russell Sanders
``Memoir? Fiction? Where's the Line?''	425	(6)
Mimi Schwartz
``Nonfiction in First Person, Without Apology''	431	(7)
Natalia Rachel Singer
``Finding the Inner Story in Memoirs and Personal Essays''	438	(4)
Michael Steinberg
``Experimental Critical Writing''	442	(5)
Marianna Torgovnick
PART 3 Composing Creative Nonfiction	447	(46)
``Warping Time with Montaigne''	451	(6)
Emily D. Chase
``Notes from a Journey toward `Warping Time'''	457	(8)
Emily D. Chase
``Teacher Training''	465	(6)
Mary Elizabeth Pope
``Composing `Teacher Training'''	471	(8)
Mary Elizabeth Pope
``Zion''	479	(8)
Maureen Stanton
``On Writing `Zion'''	487	(6)
Maureen Stanton
Alternative Contents: Approaches to Writing and Discussing Creative Nonfiction	493	(5)
Notes on Authors	498	(3)
Credits	501	(4)
Index	505