Tell It Slant, Third Edition (Paperback, 3)

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface to the Third Edition of Tell It Slant
Part I Unearthing Your Material
1 The Body of Memory
2 Writing the Family
3 “Taking Place”: Writing the Physical World
4 Gathering the Threads of History
5 The Body of Identity
6 Writing the Arts
7 Glorious Facts: Research and the Research Essay
Part II The Many Forms of Creative Nonfiction
8 The Tradition of the Personal Essay
9 Innovative Forms: The Wide Variety of Creative Nonfiction
10 Mixed-Media, Cross-Genre, Hybrid, and Digital Works
Part III Honing Your Craft
11 The Particular Challenges of Creative Nonfiction
12 The Basics of Good Writing in Any Form
13 The Writing Process and Revision
14 The Power of Writing Communities
15 Publishing Your Creative Nonfiction
16 Putting on Our Editors’ Hats
Part IV Anthology
Reading as a Writer
1 The Fine Art of Sighing
2 Leap
3 Jumping the Fence
4 To Keep an Ear to the Ground
5 Of Smells
6 On Touching Ground
7 Perdition
8 The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee
9 The Coroner’s Photographs
10 Because, the Ferguson Verdict
11 First
12 Math 1619
Appendix I: Good Habits for Healthy Writers
Appendix II: Resources for Writers
Credits
Index
About the Author