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Name: Elizabeth
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
Metro: Pittsburgh
Interests: After reading the equivalent of Tolstoy's "War and Peace" of text each week, anything that doesn't cause eye/mind strain is interesting! Just don't ask me to watch ESPN or the like; I'm still trying to figure out how to child lock sports on my cable box.
Expertise: Reading, critiquing, writing, teaching, mentoring, and making flawless omelettes.
Occupation: Other
Industry: Media
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ICQ:  55696794
Member Since:
4/13/2004
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| Beyond Busy!!Obviously, since I haven't posted here in months.
Been considering doing the "open house" style meetings with
authors/artists in my home. Oddly enough, someone pointed out that
constructive conversation about writing in general or about specific
works is incompatible with social situations. Anyone out there agree
with that "someone"?
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| Lie as an author.......and lose your contract. http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/02/23/books.frey.reut/index.html James
Frey has officially lost his book deal from Penguin. It would
be nice to just say "all's well that ends well" on this one, but there
is no reason to expect that there will be sweeping changes in the book
industry as a result of this.
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| Think before you click...Big brother is at it again, but at least someone other than Google is questioning the Attorney General.
In spite of any complaints, I doubt Google will be able to keep the high ground on this. The public is still asleep. | | |
| Thanks...I'm glad to see that there are some people reading this blog!
As for the "Fact or Fiction" debate, I posted more information about creative nonfiction here. (SteveJ, I'm not picking on you with that post on the other blog! Even the publishing industry can't manage to pick a definition for this genre and stick with it.) For the sake of my sanity, I'm going to keep longer posts about writing on that blog. Because I post regularly in three blogs now, I'm trying to categorize content in them.
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| Fact or Fiction?Oprah's opened the can of worms again, with a new debate starting in the bookselling industry about where to categorize Night by Elie Weisel.
I would have agreed to remove it from the fiction list if the author hadn't admitted to fabricating some details. In spite of that issue, there is still room to engage in debate on a hypothetical level. Suppose there was no fictional information in this novel. The good question then isn't where the booksellers should place it, but why it would be categorized as nonfiction.
The statement was made that because of the "sophisticated narrative," the book was considered fiction. If it had been completely factual, why wouldn't the term "creative nonfiction" be used to classify it?
Could it be that the marketing managers in the bookselling industry still have not recognized a genre that has been alive and kicking in its current incarnation since the early 1970's?
Creative Nonfiction is nonfiction writing that employs the writing techniques previously limited to fiction and poetics. A factual sophisticated narrative is creative nonfiction - not a novel.
This concept is taught in many colleges and universities, and will hopefully begin trickling down to the public school systems. Regardless what is taught, the booksellers will still neglect to recognize the genre. Why?
The public doesn't ask for nonfiction books written using narrative or poetic styles with the term "creative nonfiction". Maybe the next time you go to a bookstore to purchase a memoir, or collection of true stories written like short fiction, you should ask the clerk where the creative nonfiction is shelved. | | |
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