Creative Nonfiction Resources
It's a catch-all genre that most definitions seem to think is mostly literary reporting, yet has room for more sorts of non-fiction-based literary pursuits, such as memoirs, or even blogs. It's not just Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson, it's a lot more than that.
Two of my favorite writers are Barry Lopez and John McPhee, both of whom are "nature writers" who blur those lines between factual reporting and literary achievement. Annie Dillard is considered another. Loren Eiseley is a poet who did this brilliantly; even his essays are contemplative, poetical, and his memoirs, All the Strange Hours, is a terrific book. Gretel Ehrlich is another writer I recommend along these lines.
Some links, stumbled across, literarily reported herewith:
Annie Dillard
creatrive nonfiction
Poynter.org
Reading Nonfiction
creativenonfiction.org
contemporary lit
Illyria
creative nonfiction again
and again
and yet again
journals
Some great creative nonfiction books to read:
John Berger: The Sense of Sight
Thomas Merton & Robert Lax: A Catch of Anti-Letters
John McPhee: Assembling California; Oranges; Basin & Range
Loren Eiseley: The Star Thrower
Barry Lopez: Arctic Dreams
Andre Malraux: Anti-Memoirs
Bruce Chatwin: The Songlines
Peter Matthiesen: The Snow Leopard
Just for starters.
Two of my favorite writers are Barry Lopez and John McPhee, both of whom are "nature writers" who blur those lines between factual reporting and literary achievement. Annie Dillard is considered another. Loren Eiseley is a poet who did this brilliantly; even his essays are contemplative, poetical, and his memoirs, All the Strange Hours, is a terrific book. Gretel Ehrlich is another writer I recommend along these lines.
Some links, stumbled across, literarily reported herewith:
Some great creative nonfiction books to read:
John Berger: The Sense of Sight
Thomas Merton & Robert Lax: A Catch of Anti-Letters
John McPhee: Assembling California; Oranges; Basin & Range
Loren Eiseley: The Star Thrower
Barry Lopez: Arctic Dreams
Andre Malraux: Anti-Memoirs
Bruce Chatwin: The Songlines
Peter Matthiesen: The Snow Leopard
Just for starters.
Labels: creative nonfiction, writing
posted by Art Durkee at 12:17 AM
2 Comments:
Hey! just to let you know i will be stopping in -
i'll check through some of these links
as well as backtrack and read earlier entries
tom (tom b form tcp)
Hi, Tom—
Thanks for stopping in.
More will be added as I have time to edit it and/or compile it.
Comments are very welcome! So is dialogue. It's my stage, but it's a stage, not a soapbox.
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