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If the "Return to " link doesn't take you back to where you started, simply use your browser's "back" button! Essays Essay Writing: When It's Just Too Personal - Heather Haapoja An Exercise in Essay-Writing - Sheila Bender Finding Your Writing's "Occasion" - Sheila Bender Personally Speaking - Kathryn Lay Writing From Anticipation - Sheila Bender Writing the Personal Essay - Mridu Khullar Negotiating ContractsSetting Fees/Getting PaidĬreative Nonfiction: Essays, Memoirs, and the Personal Side of WritingĪrticles may be listed in more than one category. HELPFUL LINKS | EDITOR'S CORNER (Ramblings on the Writing Life) HOME | ABOUT US | CONTACT US | SITE MAP | MASTER ARTICLE INDEX | ADVERTISE WITH US! Thus it's the essential text for anyone who seeks to enjoy, to understand, or to write : Creative Nonfiction: Essays, Memoirs, and the Personal Side of Writing “The work of a master, To Show and To Tell is beyond compare, for it embodies a poetics of literary nonfiction that takes into account all the crucial aspects, elements, and issues of the craft. “Shrewd, revealing, dexterous, skeptical, provocative, restless, wry, necessary.”

The range is impressive, and the voice here is immediate, fresh, witty, winningly honest. It's a delight in itself, a fascinating exploration for readers, for anyone wondering why personally voiced nonfiction is so popular.

But it's much more than a "craft book" for writers. Impossible now to imagine a nonfiction course that does not include To Show and To Tell in its syllabus. Phillip Lopate's tour of literary nonfiction includes brilliant and helpful considerations of the essay and memoir, placing them and their vexing questions in clear cultural context. “At last-a reliable guide to the signature genre of the age. “One of the Earls of Essay returns with a collection that illustrates both his knowledge of the genre and his considerable skill in practicing it… A useful collection of bracing thoughts and sinuous sentences.” “Sophisticated… Lopate, a consummate and piquant essayist,…draws on his extensive teaching experience in this expert, anecdotal, funny, and frank guide to writing “intelligent, satisfying, engaging literary nonfiction.” Even in a how-to book, Lopate can’t help but write lithe and sparring personal essays… Never one to accept received wisdom, Lopate encourages writers to go beyond the safe, facile, and sentimental.” “One of the best guides to writing nonfiction I've read.” “ gives away all his trade secrets – a thoughtful guidebook for writers of literary nonfiction.”