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Article: Gutkind, Lee, ed. The best creative nonfiction, volume 2.(Brief article)(Book review)
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GUTKIND, Lee, ed. The best creative nonfiction, volume 2. Norton. 341 p. c2008. 9780-393-33003-8. $15.95. SA
This is the second year's collection by "the godfather behind creative narrative nonfiction" (Vanity Fair), and it has the kind of sometimes fascinating, sometimes annoying content you might expect from a field with such loose boundaries. It starts with Gutkind's introduction, where he uses his own life to frame a simple, powerful argument for the value of shared story experience on paper--and then argues that the intensity of memory matters more than the truth of what's remembered and that the fiction/nonfiction line shouldn't matter much for such work. ...