How To Use Nonfiction In A Sentence
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Each of the above-named, wildly disparate authors has written at least one readable "nonfiction" book published in the last 10 years.
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It's a high bar to set for a work of nonfiction.
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To help our readers get in where they fit in, we've chosen nonfiction selections that look both back to our past, and forward to our future.
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That's just so much hooey, but then fiction always sells better than nonfiction, doesn't it?
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Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are included.
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Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are included.
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Another work, which demonstrates the conviction behind London's nonfiction, is his introduction to Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman.
A Rare Collection of Jack London's Nonfiction
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Her first work of nonfiction, Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel, was published by Heinemann in 1997, and her monologue, "At RaeDean's Funeral," has been included in an off-off-Broadway production, Elvis Dreams, as well as several other evenings of Elvis-mania.
Interview: Melissa Scott
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The writer is making the assumption that … The author is writing this section to … The author used_____ to support their ideas The big idea in the writing is … about … The authors reason for writing this is … The author is showing me that _________because … The authors message is … Author Craft: Writers of nonfiction help readers by … When the writer_____, it helps make a strong Point of view: point because … When I read____, I can see the author feels … When the writer uses words like … The author feels that ____, because ____ ...
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This section contains a shelf-ful of really good ones, both fiction and nonfiction.
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I wonder if Rand is the 'fountainhead' of the nonfiction business books, many of which present themselves as complete.
Archive 2007-09-01
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To that end, the employment of a first-person subjective voice is one of the most powerful literary devices that creative nonfiction writers can use.
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CREATIVE MEMOIRS WORKSHOP, guidance on documenting memories in nonfiction, short fiction or poetry. 2-4 p.m.,
Southern Maryland community calendar, Sept. 30-Oct. 7, 2010
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It is to be hoped that comparatists concerned with the links between the early novel and such nonfictional forms as the memoir, the diary, and the travel account will take advantage of the opportunity to repay the debt.
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The same can be said of any number of films adapted from fiction and nonfiction sources.
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Another of the difficulties in compiling London's complete nonfiction is the curious fact that many of his articles were reprinted under different titles.
A Rare Collection of Jack London's Nonfiction
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Nonfiction is much more my scene.
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Melvin Jules Bukiet claims similarly that it is "not that a reader necessarily seeks a lesson, but fiction and nonfiction ought to approach the subject as more than an opportunity to wallow in the worst humankind has to offer," and these two comments most explicity reveal the incomprehension with which so many American reviewers of The Kindly Ones reacted to the narrative constructed by its protagonist.
Furies
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The top ten bestsellers in nonfiction, also as recorded by Publishers Weekly;
A Progressive on the Prairie » A Books of the Century reading challenge » Print
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My inclination to read nonfiction is starting to grow back!
Mrissa: books read, early February
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The human heart of the matter": In The Guardian, fiction and nonfiction writer (and innovative muddler of the two) Geoff Dyer argues that if you're waiting for the great Iraq/Afghanistan novels to appear (or looking to tense-but-shallow movies like The Hurt Locker), you're missing the boat: the great new war books are already filling the bookshelf and they are being written by reporters like David Finkel, Dexter Filkins, and Lawrence Wright.
News Junkies
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Although it's hard to calibrate digital milestones when e-book sales are growing so rapidly, Harper, an imprint of News Corp.'s HarperCollins Publishers Inc., said that for the first time at its publishing house, a leading nonfiction title chalked up higher digital sales than hardcover sales in its first two weeks on sale.
Shorts
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We represent a small stable of elite nonfiction authors from all over the world.
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Waves slosh through all of his books, whose titles sound like the names of sea chanties: “Sea of Glory,” “Away Off Shore,” “Second Wind,” and “In the Heart of the Sea,” the winner of the 2000 National Book Award for nonfiction.
Hullabaloo
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Lamott is cited as a writer who captures well the style of narrative nonfiction called "particularism", coined by Howard Freeman.
Anne Lamott biography
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It's a lot easier to sell nonfiction than fiction.
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This book, he says, “celebrates … critical writing that honors the best belletristic tradition of our nonfiction prose” and therefore he has focused on “film criticism as an art in itself the magnet for strong, elegant, eloquent, enjoyable writing.”
Another 5001 Nights at the Movies
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Anyone who has read his nonfiction work To Jerusalem and Back will be compelled to notice that the Arab inhabitants of the holy city are as nearly invisible and alien as their equivalents in Oran in Camus’ La Peste.
The Great Assimilator
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The awards recognize excellence in adult fiction and nonfiction by African American authors published in 2003.
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Nonfiction narrative is to my mind a higher art because the writer has far more demands put on them by the known facts.
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In addition, she has written several nonfiction works, including books about cats, a love since childhood.
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Not that I don't think information retrieval is an important skill that every child should have, but my fiction circulates SO much more than nonfiction -- even those that are curricular based nonfiction titles do not always get taken out.
State Birds and Foods of Many Lands
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Update, 1/26: "Devor has created a deliberate disjunction between sound and image, and if his interviews with the zoophile community and others associated with the incident clearly constitute nonfiction, the pictures that accompany those words — lyrical recreations, inventions, and allusions — are as vividly imaginative as anything in the oeuvres of Terrence Malick or Claire Denis," writes Mike D'Angelo at ScreenGrab.
GreenCine Daily: Interview. Charles Mudede. Zoo.
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Their initial list will be of humor-oriented titles, but they see a broad catalogue of fiction and nonfiction to follow.
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All writers of nonfiction books do interviews.
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Soon after, someone asked him to write a nonfiction account of the corrida de toros, or traditional Spanish bullfight.
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It can be nonfiction or fiction as long as a core theme is science or technology.
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But try to think about that passage in nonmetaphorical terms; think about what those words would mean in a nonfictional, plotless workplace.
Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture
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The garrulity began with the nonfiction books, "Death in the Afternoon" 1932 and "Green Hills of Africa," both written self-indulgently in the first person.
The Slow Crack-Up
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“Such are the fortunes of Mr. Mezrich, 34, who, in churning out a kind of impressionistic nonfiction set in the circle of well-educated young men and their adventures in wealth-building, has created the genre analogue to what publishers call chick lit,” writes Ginia Bellafante.
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Nonfiction historians are hogtied; no amount of speculative verbiage can truly fill an absence of facts.
Counting On Progress
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She made her reputation as a writer of fiction, but if the subject calls for it, she can produce nonfiction.
Christianity Today
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But in the past 20 years, as clinicians themselves produced self-help literature for the general public, nonfiction has become the dominant genre in bibliotherapy.
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Ayn Rand wrote three novels, at least seven nonfiction books, a novelette and two plays.
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He specializes in American literature, African-American culture from 1940 to 1960, Afro-American autobiography, nonfiction prose, and popular culture.
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Simon has begun to develop a distinctive voice as both a fiction and nonfiction writer.
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Antimatter, it turns out, is real, nonfiction stuff, but too rare to be used directly as rocket fuel.
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If you're writing nonfiction or memoir or something where craft is second to the information or story being conveyed then by all means have the actual *writing* part tightened up by a professional.
Warning: Objects in Mirror May Be Less Self-Editing Than They Appear
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He has written some 30 iconoclastic books of fiction and nonfiction.
Times, Sunday Times
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Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story is an engrossing nonfiction detective tale about the 13-year-old girl of the title, who vanished on the way home from school in Niigata, Japan, in 1977," writes Matt Zoller Seitz in the New York Times.
GreenCine Daily: Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story.
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Another new service for finding good, lengthy nonfiction is called Byliner byliner.com.
For ebook devotees, reading is a whole new experience
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For example, my first published piece was a nonfiction essay in MidAmerican Review.
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John Grishams first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.
The best recent books: True Crime
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I prefer fiction to nonfiction, contemporary to historical, populist to literary.
Times, Sunday Times
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His blockbuster titles have been topping both the paperback and hardback nonfiction lists.
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Using composites characters or scenes in nonfiction is controversial.
2007 July 02 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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I still feel this way about a lot of books; I like either nonfiction or stories in blatantly fictional settings - but not the ones that are "realistic" dramas involving self-torturing individuals and their families.
A sad day for bananafish
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His nonfiction was also in demand with editors and was at least as popular as his fiction.
Christianity Today
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Laura Cross is an author, screenwriter, ghostwriter, freelance book editor, and writing coach specializing in nonfiction books and script adaptation (book-to-film projects).
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Secrets Every Writer Should Know About Query Letters
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Buckley was a bon vivant with luxurious tastes, a prolific author of best-selling novels as well as serious nonfiction, a sportsman most gleeful on icy slopes and navigating through a gale, a world-class namedropper, a refined musicologist (and self-taught harpsichord player) and a lover of big words (a sesquipedalian, as he might say).
He Knew He Was Right
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Our book's approach is literary and writerly, focusing on the form and acknowledging the literary impulse in nonfiction.
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Without which a book of nonfiction is most likely fiction.
Matthew Yglesias » (Many) Books Are Too Long
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Nonfiction for younger children tends to lean more heavily on illustration than on prose, reasonably enough, and there is plenty to engross in "Peter Kent's City Across Time" Kingfisher, 48 pages, $16.99 , which came out in May.
A Good Time To Get Real
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The author, David Grann, is a New Yorker writer, which I suspect gives him great pull, but sheesh, that is the nonfiction big think bestseller crowd coming out in force.
Some books I am reading at the moment
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A nonfictional compositionindependent part of a publication , as of a newspaper or magazine.
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The entrant must not have previously published any book in any country, whether fiction or nonfiction.
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Thus, Rose seems to be suggesting, "story" in nonfiction ought not to be an end in itself, but rather a strategy used to communicate "a larger idea.
Style in Fiction
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Artists who work in nonfiction, by contrast, try stick to the contours of what happened while primarily serving the themes of the story.
Christianity Today
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We review both belles-lettres and nonfiction.
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Read literary fiction and nonfiction.
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AN: It seems like literary nonfiction has really been in ascendance over the past decade or so, and yet I rarely read essays that have the sophistication, engagement with other art and literature, and turn of thought that distinguishes really great essays like your “Against Joie d’Vivre.”
“I don’t understand the vogue for stripped-down sentences.” « PubliCola
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For nonfiction writers in particular, the internet will become a forum to talk about their book.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another of the difficulties in compiling London's complete nonfiction is the curious fact that many of his articles were reprinted under different titles.
A Rare Collection of Jack London's Nonfiction
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Mr. Mysterious's Secrets of Magic nonfiction; for young readers, illus.
Sid Fleischman (1920-2010)
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His wanderings yielded some of his finest work, both fiction and nonfiction.
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Do you prefer writing fiction or nonfiction?
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