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Fact vs. Nonfiction
Public Group active 5 years agoA group for writers and readers of creative nonfiction.
Avatar: Stereoscopic image of Genesee Upper Falls, Rochester, NY (c. 1875). P.B. Bradley, Photographer. From the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
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Isabel Owen edited the blog post Braiding Identity and “A Short Essay on Being” in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 5 years agoAccording to the Purdue Online Writing Lab, the braided essay is “broken into sections using medial white space, lines of white space on a page where there are no words (much like stanzas in poetry), and each time there is a section break, the writer moves from one ‘thread’ to another.”
I find this definition limiting, especially due to the fac…[Read more]
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Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Expressing a Culture in the Context of Another Culture in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 5 years, 1 month ago(Similar to Chloe, I had trouble finding information about the cultural essay – all there seems to be is a short blurb on personal cultural criticism that Chloe used in her blog post already. But I think she did a […]
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Chloe Forsell wrote a new blog post The Cultural Essay: What is “culture” anyway? in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 5 years, 1 month agoThis is a question I have been asking myself a lot lately.
This semester, I’ve taken on several projects which have necessitated a lot of self exploration. Through this exploration, I’ve been forced to come […]
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Rachel Britton wrote a new blog post Biomythography: Fact and Fiction as Identity in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 5 years, 1 month agoWhen you search “Biomythography” on internet search engines, the first result that comes up will say it is a term coined by Audre Lorde to describe her book Zami. There isn’t much variance in the subsequent resul […]
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Francesca Barlowe edited the blog post The Relevance of Lyric Journalism in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 5 years, 2 months agoThe difference between lyric journalism and journalism is a component that allows for lyric journalism to be contemplative about the “bigger picture” and come to some kind of conclusion about the components of life. For example, it’s the difference between saying that the Romanticism Movement was “was an artistic, literary, musical and…[Read more]
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Maddie Wayland wrote a new blog post “In the Defense of Facts” and Lyric Journalism in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 5 years, 2 months agoThe term “lyric journalism” is a rather fresh term in the world of creative non-fiction, and like other subgenres, carries with it controversy regarding what comprises “fact” and “fiction.” Creator of the term, P […]
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Emily Warnken wrote a new blog post Expression VS Exploitation: Mommie Dearest and Its Impact in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 5 years, 2 months agoChristina Crawford, adopted daughter of the late Academy Award-winning actress Joan Crawford, published a memoir about her experience growing up with a woman she portrayed to be emotionally and physically abusive. […]
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Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post Memoir As Truth-Telling: Orange is the New Black in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 5 years, 3 months agoWe’re all aware of the popular Netflix drama, Orange is the New Black, but how many people were interested in the real memoir by Piper Kerman, which the series is based on? If you look at the book’s sales af […]
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Casey Vincelette wrote a new blog post Content and Form are Soulmates in the Hermit Crab Essay in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 5 years, 3 months ago“In her essay ‘The Pain Scale,’ Eula Biss uses the form of the pain scale—which attempts to measure one’s pain on a scale of 0 to 10—as a way to structure a highly complex piece that explores not only the na […]
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Emily Warnken wrote a new blog post Reflecting on the Birth of New Journalism in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 5 years, 3 months ago“The standard non-fiction writer’s voice was like the standard announcer’s voice… a drag, a droning…”
“There was no ‘movement.’ There were no manifestos, clubs, salons, cliques; not even a saloon where the […]
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Katie Soares wrote a new blog post Truth and Memoir in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 5 years, 3 months agoLauren’s Slater’s memoir, “Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir”(2000), is probably the most frustrating piece of creative non-fiction I have read to date. But has Slater effectively toed the line between fact and fiction […]
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Arthur Swieckowski wrote a new blog post Fact v Fiction: The Zahir by Jorge Luis Borges in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 6 years agoJorge Luis Borges’ The Zahir plays with fact and fiction in very interesting ways. First of all, the story is written from the first person, and the narrator identifies himself as Borges. Herein lies the first q […]
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Arthur Swieckowski wrote a new blog post Fact v Fiction: A Girl by Ezra Pound in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 6 years agoEzra Pound’s “In A Station Of The Metro” was my introduction to imagist poetry, and it really captured my imagination, so I sought out more of his work and found “A Girl”. The poem’s title is not directly re […]
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Isabel Owen wrote a new blog post Fact and Fiction in Edwidge Danticat’s “Children of the Sea” in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 6 years ago“Children of the Sea” by Edwidge Danticat is a short story that I read last semester in Maria Lima’s 203, Reading Transnationally. It is a fictional piece about the experience of two teenage lovers who are separ […]
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Isabel Owen wrote a new blog post Fact and Fiction in Nate Pritts’ Poetry in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 6 years agoThis analysis is based on the second poem from “Pattern Exhaustion” (on page 12 of Post Human, if you have the book handy.)
After attending the Nate Pritts reading and buying his book, I began to notice in his […]
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