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Article: Gutkind, Lee, ed. In fact; the best of creative nonfiction.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
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GUTKIND, Lee, ed. In fact; the best of creative nonfiction. Norton. 440p. c2005. 0-393-32665-9. $15.95. JSA
Creative nonfiction is a special kind of nonfiction--that which is "indicative of the style in which the nonfiction is written so as to make it more dramatic and compelling." Somewhere in the vast stretch between pure fiction and a factual account of an event lies this special kind of writing. In the introduction Annie Dillard gives much advice, which she ultimately tells the writer to ignore, about how to make nonfiction creative, and the book is filled with many examples of this variety of writing. Gutkind, a writing professor, has been called the ...