David (Hrsg.) Lazar

Truth in Nonfiction: Essays

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From Elie Wiesel to Benjamin Wilkomirski to David Sedaris, the veracity of writers' claims has been suspect. In this fascinating and timely collection of essays, leading writers meditate on the subject of truth in literary nonfiction. As David Lazar writes in his introduction, How do we verify? Do we care to? (Do we dare to eat the apple of knowledge and say it's true? Or is it a peach?) Do we choose to? Is it a subcategory of faith? How do you respond when someone says, 'This is really true'? Why do they choose to say it then?

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-58729-654-3
EAN: 9781587296543
Produktnummer: 3371022
Verlag: Univ Of Iowa Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 195 S.
Masse: H22.4 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.7 cm 290 g
Auflage: Edicion Popular
Gewicht: 290

Über den Autor

David Lazar is the director of the nonfiction writing program at Columbia College Chicago, a professor in the Department of English, and the editor of Hotel Amerika. He is the author of The Body of Brooklyn (IOWA, 2003), Michael Powell: Interviews, Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher, and a book of prose poems, Powder Town. Four of his essays have been named Notable Essays of the Year by Best American Essays.