Description
Book SynopsisOffers a friendly, personal, and smart guide to the writing life. The book also offers clear and original instruction on craft elements at the forefront of today's emerging forms in creative nonfiction: from the short-short, to the braided form, to the hermit crab essay.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface by Jay Parini
- Section One
- First Words
- Fan
- Hand, Writing
- Durable Goods
- On Thermostats
- The Case Against Metaphor: An Apologia
- Section Two
- A Braided Heart: Shaping the Lyric Essay
- “Brenda Miller Has a Cold,” or: How a Lyric Essay Happens
- A Case Against Courage in Creative Nonfiction
- Writing Inside the Web: Creative Nonfiction in the Age of Connection
- The Fine Art of Containment in Creative Nonfiction
- The Shared Space Between Reader and Writer: A Case Study
- Section Three
- In Memoriam
- On the Power of Your Word
- On Friendship, Assignments, Detail, and Trust
- Cables, Chains, and Lariats: Form as Process
- The Shape of Emptiness
- Epilogue
- Collaboration in the Time of Covid-19
- Sources
