Sentences with phrase «like narrative nonfiction»

Let your facts «show, not tell:» Guberman says that the facts in a brief should read like narrative nonfiction, like something you'd read in The Atlantic or The New Yorker.

Not exact matches

Partial Bibliography Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1974, poems) Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974, nonfiction narrative) Holy the Firm (1977, nonfiction narrative) Living by Fiction (1982, non-fiction narrative) Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982, narrative essays) Encounters with Chinese Writers (1984, nonfiction narrative) An American Childhood (1987, memoir) The Writing Life (1989, non-fiction narrative) The Living (1992, novel) Mornings Like This (1995, poems) For the Time Being (1999, non-fiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The Abundance (2016)

And nothing destroys a piece of creative nonfiction like a disorganized narrative.

What's it like to be the subject of a book by Tracy Kidder, master of narrative nonfiction and Pulitzer Prize winner?

These thought - provoking works of narrative nonfiction, memoir, and a graphic novel in essays portray places in decline or busy reinventing themselves; ask where we are and where we might be heading in terms of jobs and the economy; and reveal what it's like to immigrate to twenty - first - century America.

As the above Sourcebooks post pointed out, readers using eReaders seem to prefer books that tell stories; i.e., fiction and narrative nonfiction (history, memoir, biography, and the like).

In a previous blog post I explained how creative nonfiction uses thorough research, facts, and real people and events as well as fictional techniques like scenes and narrative arcs.

This is Ms. Macy's first book, but it's in a class with other runaway debuts like Laura Hillenbrand's «Seabiscuit» and Katherine Boo's «Behind the Beautiful Forevers»: These nonfiction narratives are more stirring and dramatic than most novels.