E-Books →Creative Nonfiction The Final Issue The Best of Thirty Years of Creative Nonfiction

WhenCreative Nonfictiondebuted in 1994, the literary genre it championed was largely the target of skepticism or downright ridicule.But at a time when few editors were interested in the personal essay, the magazine doggedly explored new ideas and fresh modes of expression, and over the next three decades, its contributors pioneered what would come to be known as the "fourth genre."
The thirty-two essays collected here bring together some of the finest workCreative Nonfictionpublished over its seventy-eight issues. Read Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Simic's boyhood remembrances of the bombing of Belgrade, Carolyn Forche's haunting, lyric catalog of her daily life as she faced down a cancer diagnosis, and John Edgar Wideman's meditation on the photo of a murdered boy his same age―Emmett Till―and how the image haunted him forever. Here, you'll find work by such luminaries as Adrienne Rich and John McPhee, but also essays from more contemporary voices like Brian Broome, Elizabeth Fortescue, and Anne McGrath.
With an introduction by Lee Gutkind,Creative Nonfiction'sfounder and editor, this collectioncaptures the evolution of a genre and the amazing work of the little magazine that helped make it all happen.