In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction

In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
Lee Gutkind (Editor), Annie Dillard (Introduction)
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A cross section of the famous and those bound to become so, this collection is a riveting experience highlighting the expanding importance of this dramatic and exciting new genre.

Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-five essays that flourished in this new turf, all originally published in the groundbreaking journal he founded, Creative Nonfiction, now in its tenth anniversary year.

Many of the writers here are crossing genres—from poetry to fiction to nonfiction. Annie Dillard provides the introduction, while Gutkind discusses the creative and ethical parameters of this new genre. The selections themselves are broad and fascinating. Lauren Slater is a therapist in the institution where she was once a patient. John Edgar Wideman reacts passionately to the unjust murder of Emmett Till. Charles Simic contemplates raucous gatherings at his Uncle Boris's apartment, while John McPhee creates a rare, personal, album quilt of his own life. Terry Tempest Williams speaks on the decline of the prairie dog, and Madison Smartt Bell invades Haiti. 

• Rank: #94001 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.20" h x 5.40" w x 8.20" l, .85 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A Definitive Encyclopaedia Of Existing Information

The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A Definitive Encyclopaedia Of Existing Information
The Onion (Author)
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A devastatingly important encyclopedia from America's Finest News Source that contains the sum total of mankind's knowledge.

Are you tired of stumbling around blindly, in an ignorant haze, perplexed by the world around you? What if there was a book that could make sense of your ultimately meaningless existence? Fortunately, The Onion, bastion of unbiased, reliable, and definitive news, has produced just such a book: an encyclopedia containing all of mankind's known knowledge.

And now, in a remarkably innovative tactic bound to send shockwaves through the entire publishing industry, THE ONION BOOK OF KNOWN KNOWLEDGE is now available in a cheaper-yes, cheaper-paperback edition. Thousands of brilliant and essential text entries, colorful graphics, illustrations, and diagrams can now be yours for but a beggar's pittance. And is that not a small price to for eternal wisdom?

• Rank: #1538 in Books
• Published on: 2013-10-29
• Released on: 2013-10-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 2.04 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Fake Facts: Really Unbelievable . . . Because They're Not Real

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Fake Facts: Really Unbelievable . . . Because They're Not Real
Bathroom Readers' Institute (Author)
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The crackpot staff of the Bathroom Readers’ Institute is out of control. After 25 years of laboriously researching facts and verifying them and then verifying them again, Uncle John’s mischievous minions decided to blow off a little steam. The result: Fake Facts. It’s stuff that isn’t even remotely trueAwe just made it sound real. Why? Because it’s really funny. Fake Facts is 228 pages of origins, facts, weird products, strange diseases, kooky fads, slang terms, historical oddities, and other fascinating bits of information that are too good to be true . . . because they aren’t true. So put aside your BS detector and settle in to read about:

The ill-fated AVice President For a Day” for kids program
How the overfishing of dolphins led to the canned tuna industry
ACrumble,” Aplaidsy,” Abenji,” and other British slang
Abandoned rules of early baseball, and obscure rules of grammar
How early vegetarians gave Boston its ABeantown” nickname
The secret superpowers of twins
James Joyce’s unpublished sci-fi trilogy
Unicorns, wizards, and pirates galore

And lots more falsified fun!

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• Published on: 2012-09-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.89" h x .59" w x 4.88" l, .50 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction

In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
Lee Gutkind (Author), Annie Dillard (Author)
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Twenty-five arresting selections from the groundbreaking journal that defined a genre.

Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-five essays that flourished on this new ground, all originally published in the journal he founded, Creative Nonfiction, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. Lauren Slater is a therapist in the institution where she was once a patient. John Edgar Wideman reacts passionately to the unjust murder of Emmett Till. Charles Simic tells of wild nights with Uncle Boris. John McPhee creates a rare, personal, album quilt. Terry Tempest Williams speaks on the decline of the prairie dog. Madison Smartt Bell invades Haiti. Many of the writers are crossing genres—from poetry and fiction to nonfiction—symbolic of Creative Nonfiction's scope and popularity. A cross section of the famous and those bound to become so, this collection is a riveting experience highlighting the expanding importance of this dramatic and exciting new genre.

• Rank: #18692 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.31" h x 1.18" w x 5.63" l, .85 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages