Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction 1
4. PART 1
5. Chapter 1: Who Made This Name Up? 9
6. Chapter 2: The Changemakers 14
7. Chapter 3: The First Creative Nonfictionists 23
8. Chapter 4: A Statue of a Woman in the Pittsburgh Airport and All She Represents 38
9. Chapter 5: What White Publishers Won’t Print 47
10. Chapter 6: F*** the Establishment 57
11. Chapter 7: The Imperfect Primer 70
12. PART 2
13. Chapter 8: The Shoe Dog Goes to College 81
14. Chapter 9: A Mentor, a Mountain Man, and the Beginning of the Writing Life 92
15. Chapter 10: Innocent Victims 101
16. Chapter 11: Manipulating Material—and the People You Are Writing About 110
17. Chapter 12: A Larger Reality? Or the Untrue Truth? 119
18. Chapter 13: Dissing the Memoir 133
19. PART 3
20. Chapter 14: After All, Gentlemen, We Are Interested in Literature Here—Not Writing 147
21. Chapter 15: Bricks, Underwear, Fake Vomit—and a Guinness World Record 154
22. Chapter 16: Writers Invading the Academy 163
23. Chapter 17: Drama and Trauma 171
24. Chapter 18: Mud and Coconuts 179
25. PART 4
26. Chapter 19: How Creative Nonfiction Became Creative Nonfiction 189
27. Chapter 20: The First Issue: A Dining Room Disaster 201
28. Chapter 21: Do Poets Write Prose? 211
29. Chapter 22: The First Creative Nonfiction Conference—and George Plimpton’s Revenge 224
30. Chapter 23: The Business of Art? Or the Art of Doing the Art Business 236
31. Chapter 24: The Last Creative Nonfiction “Fist-Fight” 245
32. Epilogue 253
33. Acknowledgments 265
34. Notes 267
35. Index 281