thirty years of essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program Edelman, Hope 1964- editora Hemley, Robin 1958- editor Atwan, Robert 1940- escritor de la introducción text ilu 2015 monographic eng

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xxxiv, 244 pages ; 24 cm The University of Iowa is a leading light in the writing world. In addition to the Iowa Writers Workshop for poets and fiction writers, it houses the prestigious Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP), which was the first full-time masters-granting program in this genre in the United States. Over the past three decades the NWP has produced some of the most influential nonfiction writers in the country Prologue: how nonfiction finally achieved literary status / Robert Atwan -- Blue note / Marilyn Abildskov -- Black men / Faith Adiele -- Borders / Jon Anderson -- Cousins / Jo Ann Beard -- O wilderness / Joe Blair -- Anechoic / Ashley Butler -- Round trip / John D'Agata -- Bruce Springsteen and the story of us / Hope Edelman -- The rain makes the roof sing / Tom Montgomery Fate -- How I know Orion / Will Jennings -- Grammar lessons: the subjunctive mood / Michele Morano -- Judy! Judy! Judy! / Elena Passarello -- The Bamenda syndrome / David Torrey Peters -- High maintenance / John T. Price -- Slaughter / Bonnie Rough -- Things I will want to tell you on our first date but won't / Ryan Van Meter -- The last days of the baldock / Inara Verzemnieks -- Desperate for the story / George Yatchisin. edited by Hope Edelman and Robin Hemley ; prologue by Robert Atwan. Collection of stories by graduates of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program. University of Iowa. Nonfiction Writing Program. Creative nonfiction, American 20th century Creative nonfiction, American 21st century Literatura creativa Escritura creativa PS 688 I999 2015 814/.5408 9780226306339 (cloth : alk. paper) 022630633X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226306476 (pbk. : alk. paper) 022630647X (pbk. : alk. paper) 2015017770 ICU/DLC 150504 20230411090901.0 18603585 eng