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

Bernard Cooper

2   Leap

Brian Doyle

3   Jumping the Fence

Marjorie Rose Hakala

4   To Keep an Ear to the Ground

Barbara Hurd

5   Of Smells

Michel de Montaigne

6   On Touching Ground

Jericho Parms

7   Perdition

Kristen Radtke

8   The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee

Paisley Rekdal

9   The Coroner’s Photographs

Brent Staples

10   Because, the Ferguson Verdict

Ira Sukrungruang

11   First

Ryan Van Meter

12   Math 1619

Gwendolyn Wallace

Appendix I: Good Habits for Healthy Writers

Appendix II: Resources for Writers

Credits

Index