Touchstone anthology of contemporary creative nonfiction : work from 1970 to the present / edited by Lex Williford and Michael Martone.
From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism--this anthology brings together fifty works from all genres of creative nonfiction. --from back cover.
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2007]
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| Edition: | First Touchstone trade paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The fourth state of matter / Jo Ann Beard
- Getting along with nature / Wendell Berry
- The pain scale / Eula Biss
- The unwanted child / Mary Clearman Blew
- Torch song / Charles Bowden
- Embalming Mom / Janet Burroway
- Physical evidence / Kelly Grey Carlisle
- The glass essay / Anne Carson
- Burl's / Bernard Cooper
- Visitor / Michael W. Cox
- Living like weasels / Annie Dillard
- Return to sender / Mark Doty
- Leap / Brian Doyle
- Somehow form a family / Tony Earley
- Kissing / Anthony Farrington
- The beautiful city of Tirzah / Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
- Sun dance / Diane Glancy
- Mirrorings / Lucy Grealy
- Present tense Africa / William Harrison
- Reading history to my mother / Robin Hemley
- World on a hilltop / Adam Hochschild
- A small place / Jamaica Kincaid
- High tide in Tucson / Barbara Kingsolver
- Small rooms in time / Ted Kooser
- The essayist is sorry for your loss / Sara Levine
- Mastering the art of French cooking / E.J. Levy
- Portrait of my body / Phillip Lopate
- Flight / Barry Lopez
- The undertaking / Thomas Lynch
- Sorry / Lee Martin
- Interstellar / Rebecca McClanahan
- Bad eyes / Erin McGraw
- The search for Marvin Gardens / John McPhee
- The date / Brenda Miller
- Son of Mr. Green Jeans / Dinty W. Moore
- Celibate passion / Kathleen Norris
- This is not who we are / Naomi Shihab Nye
- Autopsy report / Lia Purpura
- Watching the animals / Richard Rhodes
- Shitdiggers, mudflats, and the worm men of Maine / Bill Roorbach
- Repeat after me / David Sedaris
- Imelda / Richard Selzer
- The Pat Boone Fan Club / Sue William Silverman
- A measure of acceptance / Floyd Skloot
- Black swans / Lauren Slater
- The love of my life / Cheryl Strayed
- Mother tongue / Amy Tan
- If you knew then what I know now / Ryan Van Meter
- Consider the lobster / David Foster Wallace
- Hawk / Joy Williams.