About creative nonfiction -- True Stories, Innovative Forms -- Basic Forms of Creative Nonfiction -- The Art of Narrative -- The Narrative Craft -- The Truth of the Matter -- Curiosity and Passion: The Indispensable Tools -- What Makes Nonfiction Creative? -- A Way of Seeing -- More than "Just the Facts" -- Creative Nonfiction versus Standard Journalism: An Illustration -- Honesty, Memory, and the Stranger in the Room -- Writing Prompts: What Is Creative Nonfiction? -- Building Blocks of Creative Nonfiction -- Building Blocks of Creative Nonfiction: Detail and Description -- Detail and Description -- Specific and Particular -- "Injection, " Jane Armstrong -- Revising for Detail and Description -- Writing Prompts: Detail and Description -- Building Blocks of Creative Nonfiction: Characterization and Scene -- Characterization through Dialogue -- "A Dramatic Dogalog, " Art Homer -- Characterization through Action -- "Drink It, " Patricia Ann McNair -- Scene: Letting the Facts Speak for Themselves -- Revising for Scene -- Writing Prompts: Characterization through Dialogue -- Writing Prompts: Characterization through Action -- Building Blocks of Creative Nonfiction -- Distinctive Voice and Intimate Pint of View.

Distinctive Voice -- "Pop Art, " Brian Doyle -- Intimate Point of View -- "Sunday, " Henry Louis Gates -- Revising for Voice and Point of View -- Writing Prompts: Distinctive Voice and Intimate Point of View -- Building Blocks of Creative Nonfiction: Discovery -- What You "Make of It" -- "Solstice, " Richard Terrill -- "Tino & Papi, " Norma Elia Cantu -- Discovery and Details -- Revising for Discovery -- Writing Prompts: Discovery -- From Building Blocks to Complete Essay -- The Memoir Essay -- Examining the Memoir Essay "Genesis, " Bret Lott -- "Thumb-Sucking Girl, " Sonja Livingston -- Writing Your Own Memoir Essay -- But "Who Cares?" -- Writing Prompts: Memoir -- The Literary Journalism Essay -- Examining the Literary Journalism Essay -- "Hope, " Brian Doyle -- From "Where Worlds Collide, " Pico Iyer -- Writing Your Own Literary Journalism Essay -- Writing Prompts: Literary Journalism -- The Personal Essay -- Examining the Personal Essay -- "The Meadow, " James Galvin -- "In Bed, " Joan Didion -- Writing Your Own Personal Essay -- Writing Prompts: the Personal Essay -- Revision and Narrative Structure -- On Serious Revision -- Revision and Narrative Structure -- Braiding -- Collage -- Frame -- Other Strategies -- Writing Prompts: Narrative Structure.

The Anthology -- The Brief Essay -- Drummond, Laurie "Alive" -- Jakiela, Lori "You'll Love the Way We Fly -- Martin, Lee "Dumber Than" -- Tall, Deborah "The Stories Tell the Land" -- The Conventional Length Essay -- Baldwin, James "Notes of a Native Son" -- Beard, Joann "Out There" -- Cofer, Judith Ortiz "Silent Dancing" -- Dillard, Annie "Living Like Weasels" -- Earley, Tony "Somehow Form a Family" -- Gerard, Philip "What They Don't Tell You About Hurricanes" -- Grealy, Lucy "Mirrorings" -- Gutkind, Lee "Difficult Decisions" -- Hemley, Robin "Reading History to My Mother" -- Hoagland, Edward "The Courage of Turtles" -- Iyer, Pico "Where Worlds Collide" -- Kincaid, Jamaica "Biography of a Dress" -- Lott, Bret "Brothers" -- McPhee, John "The Search for Marvin Gardens" -- Nye, Naomi Shihab "Three Pokes of a Thistle" -- Sanders, Scott Russell "Buckeye" -- Sedaris, David "The Drama Bug" -- Selzer, Richard "The Knife" -- Shields, David "42 Tattoos -- Tan, Amy "Mother Tongue" -- Williams, Terry Tempest "The Clan of the One-Breasted Women" -- Essays on the Craft of Creative Nonfiction -- Dillard, Annie "Seeing" -- Kidder, Tracy "Making the Truth Believable" -- Lott, Bret "Toward a Definition of Creative Nonfiction" -- Schwartz, Mimi "Memoir? Fiction? Where's the Line?"