Sentences with phrase «true of nonfiction»

This is especially true of nonfiction writers, for some reason.

Not exact matches

America's fascination with true crime storytelling has existed for quite some time, with Truman Capote noting in the 1960s that he'd created a new art form (the «nonfiction novel») with In Cold Blood, his best - selling account of the gruesome murder of a Kansas family.

While it is well - organized and beautifully paced, with touches of lyrical writing throughout, surely the source of its appeal is that it is a wonderful story that also happens to be true, as warm and fuzzy as nonfiction can get without suggesting a collaboration of Horatio Alger and Sylvester Stallone.

This is as true of fiction as nonfiction, which is one of the reasons why the distinction between the two can be — and should be — so blurred.

Tom Hardy teams with Kathryn Bigelow and producer Megan Ellison on an adaptation of The True American, a nonfiction book by Anand Giridharadas.

Isn't it true that there's a kind of elitism to genre - fiction defenders who claim that all else is lesser work (literary, nonfiction, whatever).

Natasha reaffirmed that what was true for a fiction writer like Adam is true for nonfiction writers as well: good writers are a pleasure to work with because they're constantly thinking about the process of communicating.

Author of the acclaimed picture - book biography Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (2014), Patricia Hruby Powell turns her attention to the true story of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter with her nonfiction novel in verse Loving vs. Virginia, about a white man and a black woman who fell in love and married in a time when this was an illegal act.

For novels, fictional anecdotes in nonfiction, and true stories told in a narrative style, I highlight areas where you can «show, not tell,» use active voice rather than passive, and weave in more sensory details and point - of - view characters» observations, thoughts, and feelings.

It is a wildly ambitious work of nonfiction from a true American original.

This is certainly true for the essay, but it is also true, I think, for classic nonfiction in general, be it Thucydides or Pascal or Carlyle, which follows an organizing principle that can be summarized as «tracking the consciousness of the author.»

While the events must be real and the facts true, creative nonfiction conveys your message through the use of literary techniques such as characterization, plot, setting, dialogue, narrative, and personal reflection.

Both also distribute their published works on Kindle Singles, with several starring on the bestseller list there, including The Fearless Mrs. Goodwin (Byliner) by Elizabeth Mitchell, a 44 - page true - crime account of a brutal bank heist taking place in turn - of - the - century Manhattan, and Blind Sight (Atavist) by Chris Colin, a 38 - page nonfiction narrative about a Hollywood movie producer's horrific car wreck that killed his new wife and his subsequent 10 - year journey recovering from devastating brain injuries.

We embrace many of the techniques of the fiction writer, including dialogue, description, plot, intimacy and specificity of detail, characterization, point of view; except, because it is nonfiction — and this is the difference — it is true.

It's interesting for me because I've written things of varying levels of «true» to me: a poetry memoir, the same memoir remixed with myth, stories that were essentially creative nonfiction, stories that were essentially me in fictional scenarios, vice-versa, and stories that had little to do with me at all.

When boiled down, creative nonfiction can be defined as a true story told using the elements of fiction.

If you love creative nonfiction, you won't want to miss an issue of Creative Nonfiction — or True Story.

Published monthly by the editors of Creative Nonfiction magazine, True Story is a new home for longform nonfiction narratives.

Shorthand for an exciting genre that encompasses the hard - hitting honesty of journalism and the dramatic techniques that make fiction so compelling, creative nonfiction is just that: gripping stories that just happen to be true.

According to Allwords.com, nonfiction is «written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events.»

This is equally true with Norman Mailer's creative nonfiction efforts, «Armies of the Night» and «Miami and the Siege of Chicago» and even John McPhee's incredible cataloging of facts, statistics, observations and impressions in «Looking for a Ship» or «Coming Into the Country.»

True Story is a new home for longform nonfiction narratives, published monthly by the editors of Creative Nonfiction magazine.

I think this is probably true of both literary fiction and nonfiction.

There have been more posthumous Ernest Hemingway novels — Islands of the Stream, The Dangerous Summer, True at First Light and The Garden of Eden, not to mention works of nonfiction — than many writers produce during their lifetimes.

Her nonfiction titles include the New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner, The Argonauts (2015), The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011; a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Bluets (2009; named by Bookforum as one of the top 10 best books of the past 20 years), The Red Parts (2007; reissued 2016), and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (2007).