Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
Work From 1970 to the Present
Touchstone · Print & ebook · December 11, 2007
From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver, and more.
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- Who it’s for
- A layered anthology for reading, teaching, and the occasional argument that helps.
- Genres
- Essay Collections, Writing Nonfiction & Memoir, American Literary Collections
- Published
- Touchstone, December 11, 2007
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From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver, and more. Selected by five hundred writers, English professors, and creative writing teachers from across the country, this collection includes only the most highly regarded nonfiction work published since 1970.
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Contributers include: Jo Ann Beard, Wendell Berry, Eula Biss, Mary Clearman Blew, Charles Bowden, Janet Burroway, Kelly Grey Carlisle, Anne Carson, Bernard Cooper, Michael W. Cox, Annie Dillard, Mark Doty, Brian Doyle, Tony Earley, Anthony Farrington, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Diane Glancy, Lucy Grealy, William Harrison, Robin Hemley, Adam Hochschild, Jamaica Kincaid, Barbara Kingsolver , Ted Kooser, Sara Levine, E.J. Levy, Phillip Lopate, Barry Lopez, Thomas Lynch, Lee Martin, Rebecca McCLanahan, Erin McGraw, John McPhee, Brenda Miller, Dinty W. Moore, Kathleen Norris, Naomi Shihab Nye, Lia Purpura, Richard Rhodes, Bill Roorbach, David Sedaris, Richard Selzer, Sue William Silverman, Floyd Skloot, Lauren Slater, Cheryl Strayed, Amy Tan, Ryan Van Meter, David Foster Wallace, and Joy Williams.
Why It Clicks
A layered anthology for reading, teaching, and the occasional argument that helps.
Come here for
- contemporary creative nonfiction
- language and craft across short-form work
Expect
- 1970s to the present
- short, discussable selections
Where it sits
| Writing Nonfiction & Memoir | 73% |
|---|---|
| Essay Collections | 68% |
| American Literary Collections | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Essay Collections
- Diaries & Journals Collection
- American Lit Crit
- Authors
- Lex Williford, Michael Martone, Bernard Cooper
- Publisher
- Touchstone
- Published
- December 11, 2007
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Essay Collections