Nonfictionist's Guide

As a vital and growing literary genre nonfiction impacts bestseller lists writing programs writers' workshops and academic conferences on creative writing composition/rhetoric and literature. In a lively exploration of its poetics <I>The Nonfictionist's Guide</I> examines the elements of contemporary nonfiction and suggests imaginative approaches to writing it. Beginning with a new definition of nonfiction and explanation of the nonfiction motive Robert Root guides both readers and writers through the innovative and stimulating ways we write nonfiction now.