| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
167 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Reportage literature -- Authorship.
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Journalism -- Authorship.
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Creative writing.
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| Added Author |
Gutkind, Lee.
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Buck, Hattie Fletcher.
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| ISBN |
9780393065619 hardcover |
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0393065618 hardcover |
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