The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting
How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-do-wells, Concocted Creative Nonfiction

Lee Gutkind, known as the Godfather of Creative Nonfiction, tells the inside story of how this genre of writing, unheard of before the 1970s, came to be. Once upon a time “literature” consisted of fiction, poetry, and plays. Nonfiction, including memoirs and essays, was a whole other thing reserved......more

When I first read a blurb about this book in one of the literary blogs I subscribe to, I thought it would interest a friend of mine, so I put it on hold at the library, intending to skim it and decide whether I'd give it away as a gift. But instead, it totally grabbed me, and I ended up spending muc......more

I wasn't super sure how to rate this. I picked it up because I was interested in starting to write essays and wanted to learn more about the genre and what it entails. I had come across his Creative Nonfiction magazine online and wanted to read more. The history presented in this was fascinating and......more

The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction, turned out to be a surprising book to me. I checked it out of the library out of curiosity, and then got entranced by the author's well-written stories of the writers h......more

This book was a really interesting modern history of the writing genre, Creative Nonfiction. The beginning is more helpful and applicable for actually improving one's writing craft, but even the parts of the book that talk about the behind-the-scenes of the writing world are also useful for knowing......more