01981cam a2200265 4500 2359 20181127165015.0 040714s2005 nyu 000 0 eng 2004016506 0393326659 (pbk.) n-us--- In fact : The best of Creative nonfiction / edited by Lee Gutkind ; introduction by Annie Dillard. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2005. xxxvi, 440 p. ; 21 cm. CONTENTS: Introduction : notes for young writers / Annie Dillard -- The creative nonfiction police? / Lee Gutkind -- Three spheres / Lauren Slater -- Looking at Emmett Till / John Edgar Wideman -- Shunned / Meredith Hall -- An album quilt / John McPhee -- Dinner at Uncle Boris's / Charles Simic -- Prayer dogs / Terry Tempest Williams -- What is it we really harvestin' here? / Ntozake Shange -- The Brown study / Richard Rodriguez -- Killing wolves / Sherry Simpson -- Being Brians / Brian Doyle -- Language at play / Diane Ackerman -- Finders keepers: the story of Joey Coyle / Mark Bowden -- Notes from a difficult case / Ruthann Robson -- Adventures in celestial navigation / Philip Gerard -- Leaving Babylon: a walk through the Jewish divorce ceremony / Judyth Har-Even -- Gray area: thinking with a damaged brain / Floyd Skloot -- Joe stopped by / Andrei Codrescu -- In the woods / Leslie Rubinkowski -- Sa'm Pèdi / Madison Smartt Bell -- Going native / Francine Prose -- Chimera / Gerald N. Callahan -- Mixed-blood stew / Jewell Parker Rhodes -- Why I ride / Jana Richman -- Delivering Lily / Phillip Lopate. American essays. American prose literature 20th century. American prose literature 21st century. Creative nonfiction. Journalism United States. Reportage literature, American. Gutkind, Lee. Creative nonfiction. 1885 1885 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN RTCLIB RTCLIB MAIN 2021-08-20 689 5 7 808.84 GUT 30001234 2025-09-04 00:00:00 2025-08-20 2018-11-27 MAIN