English @ SUNY Geneseo | The Management | Friends Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/admin/activity/friends/ Activity feed for The Management's friends. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 837203e3bd651b8d83811fedb78509ae Stephen J. West wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=582 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:08:25 -0500 Daniel José Older shares a provocative take on what makes a writer in this blog post on Seven Scribes, and it just might liberate those of us steeped in the anxiety that we’re “not doing it right.” Not to mention […]

]]> 96ec0537855b7205c36184348e9c8520 Stephen J. West wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=579 Tue, 23 Jun 2015 20:49:13 -0500 “Faction” gets my vote.

Catherine Buni’s essay “Pants on Fire: The Genre That Cannot be Named” on The Millions website takes this question to task, exploring the fact (or fiction?) that we still don’t have a […]

]]> 90b9d347c87a4bf3362ed271fa0114f9 Stephen J. West commented on the post, Reader/Response, on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/04/17/what-the-hell-is-a-firefly-anyway/#comment-52 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:13:55 -0500 This is a compelling post William, as is your response to it Katie. But what, I wonder, does a work of creative nonfiction–where the authorial presence is regularly a component of the text that cannot be […]

]]> d7c62a5cdd92f5a35f53ee5c8350e677 Stephen J. West commented on the post, Truth V. Nontruth, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/10/truth-v-nontruth/#comment-256 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 18:23:48 -0500 Thank you for sharing this lovely meditation on your personal connection to the genre, Sarah. The ethical dilemma of writing about real people is something every writer of CNF confronts–and it can even dictate […]

]]> 17cb10c12150aeda5474ef3f134f7b21 Stephen J. West commented on the post, The Able Disabled, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/04/the-able-disabled/#comment-212 Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:16:35 -0500 Lovely personal reflection on this very present yet often (intentionally) overlooked issue, Simone. This reminds me of Stephen Kuusisto’s memoir, Planet of the Blind–one of my favorites–when he writes, “It’s not […]

]]> 1fcde066d744c5efc6d799b753ee7e27 Stephen J. West commented on the post, Some Links to Some Stuff, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/17/some-links-to-some-stuff/#comment-197 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:26:00 -0500 Thanks for sharing these, Ian–all relevant to the craft of CNF, even if the theme is a bit of a downer 🙂

]]> 3e39fd5af507b16b3e2282e582a1ae71 Stephen J. West commented on the post, How An Unlikely Podcast Made It Big, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/15/how-an-unlikely-podcast-made-it-big/#comment-196 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:06:32 -0500 I agree with Devon and Colleen on this one–her voice is so conversational and inviting, and her interest in the case seems so sincere that it definitely has an affect on the audience’s relationship to the case. […]

]]> bbad401ceca67ccf5d661c5075756b6a Stephen J. West commented on the post, The Evolution of Serial, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/15/the-evolution-of-serial/#comment-195 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 13:58:40 -0500 Katie, you bring up an interesting perspective; I’m not sure Koenig’s position in the narrative is static one way or the other. She’s sometimes an “everywoman” as you say, and that would make her a stand-in of […]

]]> eb261c52ce4627ce3c9bbab6e8b82447 Stephen J. West commented on the post, Subjectivity v. Objectivity (2015), on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/15/subjectivity-v-objectivity-2015/#comment-191 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:58:44 -0500 I agree! I wonder why we hold Koenig to a high journalistic standard in Serial, where she should worry about being too subjective. Is objectivity really the only means to communicating truth? Perhaps if Koenig’s […]

]]> 51b7c2961ba630ae7db1b5cd2f0083b6 Stephen J. West commented on the post, Speaking to the Truth, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/15/speaking-to-the-truth/#comment-186 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:56:10 -0500 I agree, Amanda–maybe it’s that reading sarcasm requires more nuance than hearing it or seeing it on the big screen?

There is something to the idea that hearing and/or seeing a character–especially in a […]

]]> 9a7f1df86fbf605d05db00d0b910c9ec Stephen J. West commented on the post, Serial and the Dynamics of Nonfiction, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/14/serial-and-the-dynamics-of-nonfiction/#comment-185 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:30:47 -0500 Interesting conversation here, and I think all of the points raised are valid. Joe, your take on generational changes are important–especially as they influence how we measure educational outcomes.

Dillon, […]

]]> 2e2863e9d569105c03506d688c7f2045 Stephen J. West commented on the post, Creative Nonfiction vs. Non-fiction: What’s with the Hyphen?, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/01/29/creative-nonfiction-vs-non-fiction-whats-with-the-hyphen/#comment-167 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:12:45 -0500 Bravo, Katie! I am staunchly on Team Non-hyphen, ahem, NONhyphen. Maybe we should incite a revolution, our call to action sounded by renaming the genre Antifiction: a title that projects a deliberate and radical […]

]]> 600c8bb129a63628246891b5eba81ac5 Stephen J. West wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=313 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:24:55 -0500 Thumbnail

 

Not sure they are each worth a thousand words, but these visual interpretations of common essay structures in Issue #49 of Creative Nonfiction are pretty handy for writers new to the genre.

]]> e22f68c31f36ed5fb7431057d37d6db6 Stephen J. West wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=130 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 01:54:49 -0500 The hook of Sarah Koenig’s podcast Serial  is her (and her production team’s) meticulous investigation into the details of the state of Maryland’s story of how Adnan Syed murdered Hae Min Lee in 1999. Koenig lets […]

]]> 0dc593795f42bd116cb91622f33a741a Stephen J. West wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=21 Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:29:04 -0500 It’s awards season in Hollywood! I wish I could say I’ve watched any of the films that will be nominated for best picture this year, but I haven’t. The only movie I saw in the theater this year was X-Men: Days of […]

]]> 41772393fa6b2aec8224cf6a9c8bfd84 Stephen J. West wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=16 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 12:22:48 -0500 Mary Karr shares how she writes to the threshold in The Paris Review.  Paris Review – The Art of Memoir No. 1, Mary Karr.

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