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Keep it real : everything you need to know about researching and writing creative nonfiction / edited by Lee Gutkind and Hattie Fletcher.

1st ed.

New York : W.W. Norton, ©2008.

167 pages ; 22 cm

Citing recent challenges to the classical process of writing autobiographically, an analysis of the discipline of writing creative nonfiction evaluates its boundaries in order to clarify how to write both truthfully and artfully.

Reportage literature -- Authorship.

Journalism -- Authorship.

Creative writing.

Creative nonfiction.

Literature.

Gutkind, Lee.

Buck, Hattie Fletcher.

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.

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