Sue William Silverman's CONTEMPORARY CREATIVE NONFICTION READING LIST www.suewilliamsilverman.com Illness, Accident, Grief A. Manette Ansay, Limbo: A Memoir Harold Brodkey, This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death Anatole Broyard, Intoxicated by My Illness Andre Dubus, Broken Vessels, Meditations from a Moving Chair Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss Kenny Fries, Body, Remember Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face Evan Handler, My Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors Ann Hood, Do Not Go Gentle: The Search for Miracles in Cynical Time Roger Kamenetz, Terre Infirma Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother Kay Jamison, An Unquiet Mind Natalie Kusz, Road Song Mindy Lewis, Life Inside Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals Nancy Mairs, Carnal Acts; Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled Christopher Noel, In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: A Geography of Grief Reynolds Price, A Whole New Life Sue William Silverman, Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness Family & Relationships Max Apple, Roommates: My Grandfather's Story; I Love Gootie: My Grandmother's Story Peter Balakian, Black Dog of Fate Jane Bernstein, Loving Rachel Mary Clearman Blew, All But the Waltz: Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family Francine Cournos, City of One John Daniel, Looking After: A Son's Memoir Patty Dann, The Baby Boat: A Memoir of Adoption Nora Eisenberg, The War at Home Kathleen Finneran, The Tender Land Patricia Foster, All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter Dorothy Gallagher, How I Came into My Inheritance Gail Hosking Gilberg, Snake's Daughter: The Roads in and Out of  War Vivian Gornick, Fierce Attachments Adam Hochschild, Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and  Son Susan Jacoby, Half-Jew Bret Lott, Fathers, Sons, Brothers Rebecca McClanahan, The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings Valerie Miner, The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir Molly Peacock, Paradise, Piece by Piece Sue William Silverman, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You Abigail Thomas, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life Jim Toner, Serendib Bruce Weigl, The Circle of Hanh John Edgar Wideman, Brothers and Keepers Experimental Forms Dennis and Vicki Covington, Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage (husband-wife collaboration) John D'Agata, Halls of Fame John D'Agata, ed., The Next American Essay Robin Hemley, Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness Brian Lennon, City, An Essay Pat Mora, House of Houses Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation (mosaic) Bob Shacochis, Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love Lawrence Sutin, A Postcard Memoir Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Peter Trachtenberg, 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh Place, Nature, Science Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire Wendell Berry, Recollected Essays, 1965-1980 Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: Teaching a Stone to Talk Ivan Doig, This House of Sky Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Space J. H. Fabre, Social Life in the Insect World Edward Hoagland, The Courage of Turtles Garrett Hongo, Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i Marcy Houle, Prairie Keepers Cynthia Huntington, The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod Theresa Jordan, Riding the White Horse William Kittredge, Hole in the Sky David Lazar, The Body of Brooklyn William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in Northern Landscape Nancy Lord, Green Alaska: Dreams from the Far Coast and Fishcamp: Life on an Alaskan Shore Michael Martone, The Flatness and Other Landscapes Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence Dana Sachs, The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam Alix Kates Shulman, Drinking the Rain Robert Stepto, Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place Childhood & Coming of Age James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son Jo Ann Beard, The Boys of My Youth Jerome Charyn, The Dark Lady of Belorusse Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood Frank Conroy, Stop-Time Faith Edise, Nina Sichel, Eds., Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global James Ellroy, My Dark Places Patricia Hampl, A Romantic Education Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Life June Jordan, Soldier: A Poet's Childhood Lisa Knopp, Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of my Name Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story Vladimir Nabokov, Speak Memory Alberto Rios, Capirotadas: A Nogales Memoir Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books Kate Simon, Bronx Primitive Ilan Stevens, On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life Richard Wright, Black Boy New Journalism, History, Social, Political, Religious, Spiritual, Feminist (and some that defy categorization) Mark Curtis Anderson, Jesus Sound Explosion Victoria Armour-Hileman, Singing to the Dead: A Missioner's Life Among Refugees from Burma Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days Barrie Jean Borich, My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage Lady Borton, Sensing the Enemy C.D.B. Bryan, Friendly Fire Truman Capote, In Cold Blood Dalton Conley, Honky Rosemary Daniell, Confessions of a (Female) Chauvinist Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem Beverly Donofrio, Looking for Mary (Or, The Blessed Mother and Me) Gretel Ehrlich, Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journey of an American Buddhist Mikal Gilmore, Shot in the Heart Melissa Fay Greene, Praying for Sheetrock Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler Jim Harrison, Off to the Side Tom Hayden, Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America Robin Hemley, Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday John Hersey, Hiroshima Adam Hochschild, The Unquiet Ghosts: Russians Remember Stalin; King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Sebastian Junger, A Perfect Storm Kazuko Kuramoto, Manchurian Legacy: Memoirs of a Japanese Colonialist Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List Tracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren and House Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air Bernard Lefkowitz, Our Boys Beverly Lowry, Crossed Over Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk Tillie Olsen, Silences Mary Rose O'Reilley, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd Caryl Phillips, The Atlantic Sound Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic Susan Tiberghien, Circling to the Center: One Woman's Encounter with Silent Prayer Studs Terkel, Working Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, etc. Personal Essay Jill Bialofsky and Helen Schulman (eds.), Wanting a Child Janet Burroway, Embalming Mom: Essays in Life Toi Dericotte, The Black Notesbooks: An Interior Journey The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction M.F.K. Fisher, Among Friends Ian Frazier, On the Rez Kenny Fries (ed.), Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out Vivian Gornick, Approaching Eye Level Steve Harvey, Bound for Shady Grove Phillip Lopate, Against Joie de Vivre; Portrait of My Body Molly Peacock (ed.), The Private I (on privacy) Scott Russel Sanders, Secrets of the Universe and Staying Put Mimi Schwartz, Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed David Shields, Remove: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity Gerald Stern, What I Can't Bear Losing E. B. White, One Man's Meat Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being; The Death of the Moth and Other Essays Humor Robert Benchley, Benchley Beside Himself Dinty Moore, The Accidental Buddhist S. J. Perelman, Most of the Most of S. J. Perelman David Sedaris, Naked James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times Journals & Letters Genevieve Jurgensen, The Disappearance: A Primer of Loss Carl H. Klaus, My Vegetable Love: A Journal of a Growing Season Jean Rhys, The Letters of Jean Rhys, Selected & Edited by Francis Wyndham & Diana Melly Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cezanne and Letters to a Young Poet May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright, The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silky & James Wright Anne Truitt, Prospect: The Journal of an Artist Occupational Memoirs Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Teacher Ted  Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing Gail Griffin, Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue Ben Hamper, Rivethead Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking Louise Rafkin, Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Richard Seltzer, Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery; Confessions of a Knife Frank Vertosick, Why We Hurt; The Natural History of Pain On and About Writing (not just nonfiction) Phillip Lopate, ed., The Art of the Personal Essay Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories (memoir & craft) Philip Gerard, Creative Nonfiction Philip Gerard, Carolyn Forche, ed., Writing Creative Nonfiction Judith Kitchen, Mary Paumier Jones, In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal; In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction Michael Steinberg (ed.), The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction Gayle Brandeis, Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write Robert Atwan, ed., The Best American Essays (published annually) Judith Ortiz Cofer, Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer Judith Barrington, Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art William Zinsser, ed., Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir Bill Roorbach, Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into Memoirs Scott Edelstein, The Indispensable Writer's Guide Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones Bonnie Friedman, Writing Past Dark Rebecca McClanahan, Write Your Heart Out Robin Hemley, Turning Life into Fiction Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers Literary Journals for Nonfiction Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (www.msupress.msu.edu/bookTemplate.php?bookID=693) Creative Nonfiction  (www.creativenonfiction.org) River Teeth Brevity  (750 words or less--www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/brevity.html) Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Essay (www.tiny-lights.com) Ponts of Entry: Cross-Currents in Storytelling (literary journalist, fiction, traditional & oralstorytelling, essays by journalists--www.pointsofentry.org) Web Sites for Writers The Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource, www.zuzu.com- terrific links to literary journals & much more NewPages.com, www.newpages.com--lists of literary periodicals, independent publishers, etc. Poets & Writers, www.pw.org--articles and places to publish The Associated Writing Programs--www.awpwriter.org, articles and places to publish www.writingitreal.com--web magazine about writing, edited by Sheila Bender Getting Published Writers Market Literary Market Place Literary Agents: A Writer's Introduction, John F. Baker www.agentsource.com Dustbooks (P.O. Box 100, Paradise, CA 95967), publishes The International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses *This list is a work in progress. Please let me know if I've neglected your favorite book: suesilverman@chartermi.net