It's possible that nonfiction, as a label for an entire literary genre, has outlived its usefulness. It seems more and more readers (and some critics) are on a passionate, hellbent pursuit of truth in their reading materials -hence the rise of the memoir over the tried- and-true novel on bestseller lists. And though memoirists and authors of other creative nonfiction have always taken liberties with character, time, and place - sometimes to protect the innocent, but just as often for dramatic purposes - in this era of reality television and instant gratification, the masses are no longer likely to accept "but it's art" as an excuse for what they define as lying. See, for instance, the unprecedented outcry after it was revealed that author James Frey had exaggerated and confabulated port...
For me, it came down to what was best for the students at our school. Since most of our students browse for their books, it made sense to organize the library to fit their search style. Since our yearly nonfiction book order is not substantial, we could reprocess all our new purchases in house by changing their coding in the catalog and printing new spine labels. Since this is a learning process, we know we may run into other problems in the future, but we are ready to tackle them as they arise.
Jeffrey Campbell says the trip underscored his brother's attention to detail: "He really did a nice job of planning. He likes to do things the proper way" More than that, it showed his passion for exploration. "He's willing to take risks," notes Jeffrey. "He always had this adventurous spirit and imagination. Occasionally, you'll write a great page," Campbell says, "but the next morning you'll write 10 bad pages." His wife reminds him that "you've gotta celebrate the little achievements along the way, like finishing the first chapter." In the end, all those little successes add up to one big one. The Ghost Mountain Boys is a featured selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, as well as the History and the Military book-of-the-month clubs. Campbell has also gotten "great blurbs" for the...
With a thrillers pace and the emotional heft of a battlefield journal, PBSs remarkable new documentary Freedom Riders recounts the bloody anti-segregation bus rides of 1961 that helped kill Jim Crow in the Deep South. Combining new interviews with the aging riders with harrowing footage of their brave, battered younger selves, Freedom Riders brings to vivid life a wrenching moment in American history. Fifty years on and with the movements successes long charted, this installment of PBSs American Experience reconstructs those tense weeks with edgy momentum. In May 1961, civil rights activists, both black and white, boarded several Greyhound and Trailways buses in Washington D.C., en route to New Orleans. At various points, including Birmingham, Ala., and Jackson, Miss., the nonviolent pa...
was a fabulous year for memoirs. My favorite nonfiction titles from last year are all memoirs: You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness" by Julie Klam (Riverhead Books, 228 pages, $24.95)
IF YOU'VE read your fill of thrillers and mysteries this summer, here are a few nonfiction titles to get you into fall. Two years ago, I wrote about an ecological disaster unfolding on Rat Island in the Bering Sea between Siberia and Alaska. Rats descended from those shipwrecked hundreds of years earlier had decimated the island's population of ground nesting sea birds. It was a story that deserved much more than a single newspaper column. Book publishers abhor a vacuum, and thus "Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue" by William Stoltzenburg ($26.00, Bloomsbury, 2011) was born.
jrutter@lnpnews.com Yeah, I did it," Michael Roseboro tells a fellow prisoner in the new true-crime novel "Love Her to Death.
What's most notably new at the festival is a series of workshops on the craft and business of writing, aimed at those who lack the time or money for a formal writing program. The intensive three-hour workshops, scheduled for Sat., Nov. 11, are led by writing professionals and include: "Structuring Creative Nonfiction" (Penn State professor Dinty W. Moore); "Breaking into Book Reviewing" (Rebecca Miller of Library Journal); "Creating Metaphors That Matter" (Marc Nieson); "Interview and Immersion Techniques" (Rebecca Skloot); "Writing Query Letters for Magazines" (the Washington Post's Michael Rosenwald); and - presumably for those who have prospered by the above skills - "The Art of Giving Public Readings" (actor David Prete). The workshops take place at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. E...
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