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010 _a 2004016506
020 _a0393326659 (pbk.)
043 _an-us---
245 0 0 _aIn fact :
_bThe best of Creative nonfiction /
_cedited by Lee Gutkind ; introduction by Annie Dillard.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton & Co.,
_cc2005.
300 _axxxvi, 440 p. ;
_c21 cm.
505 _aCONTENTS: 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.
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650 0 _aAmerican essays.
650 0 _aAmerican prose literature
_y20th century.
650 0 _aAmerican prose literature
_y21st century.
650 0 _aCreative nonfiction.
650 0 _aJournalism
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aReportage literature, American.
700 1 _aGutkind, Lee.
730 0 _aCreative nonfiction.
999 _c1885
_d1885