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Truth in Nonfiction: Essays
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Description for Truth in Nonfiction: Essays
Paperback. The past and the truth are slippery things, and the art of nonfiction writing requires the writer to shape as well as explore. In personal essays, meditations on the nature of memory, considerations of the genres of memoir, prose poetry, essay, fiction, and film, this work attempts to find answers to the question of what truth in nonfiction means. Editor(s): Lazar, David. Num Pages: 216 pages, 18 photos. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
Even before the controversy that surrounded the publication of ""A Million Little Pieces"", the question of truth has been at the heart of memoir. From Elie Wiesel to Benjamin Wilkomirski to David Sedaris, the veracity of writers' claims has been suspect. In this fascinating and timely collection of essays, leading writers meditate on the subject of truth in literary nonfiction. As David Lazar writes in his introduction, ""How do we verify? Do we care to? (Do we dare to eat the apple of knowledge and say it's true? Or is it a peach?) Do we choose to? Is it a ... Read more
Even before the controversy that surrounded the publication of ""A Million Little Pieces"", the question of truth has been at the heart of memoir. From Elie Wiesel to Benjamin Wilkomirski to David Sedaris, the veracity of writers' claims has been suspect. In this fascinating and timely collection of essays, leading writers meditate on the subject of truth in literary nonfiction. As David Lazar writes in his introduction, ""How do we verify? Do we care to? (Do we dare to eat the apple of knowledge and say it's true? Or is it a peach?) Do we choose to? Is it a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781587296543
SKU
V9781587296543
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About
David Lazar is the director of the nonfiction writing program at Columbia College Chicago, a professor in the Department of English, and the editor of Hotel Amerika. He is the author of The Body of Brooklyn (IOWA, 2003), Michael Powell: Interviews, Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher, and a book of prose poems, Powder Town. Four of his essays have ... Read more
Reviews for Truth in Nonfiction: Essays
At last, as engrossing and intellectually sophisticated and varied a discussion of these sticky topical issues as one could ever hope to find. What makes the book even better is that so many of these pieces are stunning essays in their own right. - Phillip Lopate, author, Getting Personal: Selected Writings