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Blog posts tagged with "neglected nonfiction classics"
The Thrill of Narrative Incompleteness
| November 1, 2018 At first glance, the photographic record of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, shows an average town for the time, from 1890 to 1910....
A Craft He Would, Thankfully, Never Learn
| December 8, 2016 In the 1970s and 1980s, freshman composition was a province of nonfiction writing. In those days, teachers who taught comp--myself among them--learned our craft largely from the primers of people like Peter Elbow, Toby Fulwiler, Wendy Bishop, and Donald Murray, four of that period's more formidable, most passionate teacher-writers...
True Grits
| October 6, 2016 Harry Crews begins his classic memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by conjuring in intimate detail someone he doesn't remember...
An Inner Exuberance
| October 1, 2015 With this review, River Teeth begins an occasional series of essays on nonfiction books we believe deserve to be read, whether again or for the first time. We are calling it "Neglected Nonfiction Classics." One of the most poignant, absorbing autobiographical memoirs I’ve ever read is this gem from 1943, The Little Locksmith.
