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    Essays on Creative Nonfiction

    Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. This debate over ethics, however, has sidelined important questions of literary form. Bending Genre does not ask where the boundaries between genres should be drawn, but what happens when you push the ... Read more

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  • Bending Genre

    Essays on Creative Nonfiction

    Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. An early and influential book on questions of form in creative nonfiction, Bending Genre asks not where the boundaries between the genres should be drawn, but what happens when you push the line. The ... Read more

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  • Hold That Knowledge

    Stories about Love from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

    Series Book 109 - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
    Love, in some of the infinite ways we may know it, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O’Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often ... Read more

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  • A Perfect Souvenir

    Stories about Travel from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

    Series Book 115 - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
    Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often ... Read more

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  • The Pale of Settlement

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    Series Book 8 - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
    In settings from Jerusalem to Manhattan, from the archaeological ruins of the Galilee to Kathmandu, The Pale of Settlement gives us characters who struggle to piece together the history and myths of their family’s past.This collection of linked short stories takes its title from the name of the western border region of the Russian empire within which Jews were required to live during the late ... Read more

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