In the first paragraph of “The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting,” Lee Gutkind, the “Godfather” of the creative-nonfiction genre (a title used once to describe him in Vanity Fair in 1997 and since ...
L ee Gutkind, a writer and administrator of a creative-writing program whom Vanity Fair once dubbed the “godfather behind creative nonfiction,” has reached his golden years in triumph. That’s the bad ...
What is “creative nonfiction,” exactly? Isn’t the term an oxymoron? Creative writers—playwrights, poets, novelists—are people who make stuff up. Which means that the basic definition of “nonfiction ...