WRT114 Texts

Unit 1:

  1. “Why I Write?” by Terry Tempest Williams;
  2. Brett Lott, “Toward a Definition of Creative Nonfiction” (PDF)
  3. “The Body of Memory,” Tell It Slant: Ch.1 pg 3-16 
  4. “Twenty Ways to Talk about Creative Non Fiction” pdf (80-84);
  5. “Where to Begin,” Tell It Slant: xiii-xvi;
  6. “Three Voices” by Bhanu Kapil  In Short 45-47
  7.  Read Tell It Slant: xiii-xvi;
  8. Lee Gutkind, “The Creative Nonfiction Police?”
  9.  In Fact, xix-xxxiii;
  10. Mimi Schwartz, “Memoir? Fiction? Where’s the Line?” (PDF
  11. “Leap” by Brian Doyle
  12. Mimi Schwartz, “The Special Power of Present Tense” (PDF)
  13. Scott Russell Sanders, “The Singular First Person” (PDF)
  14. Mimi Schwartz “ Voice Lesson”( pdf)
  15. Tracy Kidder, “Making the Truth Believable” (PDF)
  16.  Noah Lukeman, “The Comma” (PDF)
  17. Deneen L. Brown, “To Begin the Beginning” (PDF
  18. Joan Didion " On Keeping a Notebook"