Contents
Cover
Title Page
Contributing Writers
Private and Public:
The Range and Scope
of Creative Nonfiction
by Lee Gutkind
The ABCs of Creative Nonfiction
Acknowledgment of Sources
Backdoor Access
Checkbook Journalism
Composite Characters
Compression
Defamation and Libel
Evolution of the Genre
Facts
Fact-checking
Family Members as Characters
Forewords and Afterwords
Frame
Getting Inside Characters’ Heads
Guiding the Reader
Gunkholing: Finding a Story
History into Nonfiction Narrative
The “I”
Immersion
Influencing Readers
Keeping It Brief
Legal Responsibilities of Publishers
The Lyric Essay
The Memoir Craze
Metaphor
Montage Writing
The Narrative Impulse
Navel-gazing
Point of View
Psychoanalyzing Characters
Quotation Marks
Reconstruction of Events
Reflection
The Roots of Memoir
Scenes
Subjectivity
Tape Recording
Truth
Use of Imagination
The Vagaries of Memory
Whose Story to Tell
Writers’ Responsibility to Subjects
About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Praise for
Copyright
Also Edited by Lee Gutkind