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Book

True stories, well told : from the first 20 years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine

Call Number

  • 814 T8665 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Pittsburgh : InFact books, 2014.

Physical Description

342 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

Collects twenty true stories about a wide range of topics, from healthcare to monarch butterflies.

Contents

  • You'll know it when you read it / Why creative nonfiction matters / The butterfly effect / Charging lions / End of the line / The wishbone / Breastfeeding Dick Cheney / Teaching death / Self-interview / Rachel at work: enclosed, a mother's report / Mrs. Kelly / The world without us / Scrambled eggs / Regeneration / Beds / The heart / Two on Two / Pesäpallo: Playing at the edge of the world
  • Caitlin Horrocks
  • 'Mbriago / Far, far away / Night rhythms
  • John T. Price
  • The fine art of literary fist fighting

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