In the first paragraph of “The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting,” Lee Gutkind, the “Godfather” of the creative-nonfiction genre (a title used once to describe him in Vanity Fair in 1997 and since ...

Sometime “around late 1989 or early 1990,” according to Lee Gutkind, “there seemed to be the beginning of a creative nonfiction buzz.” He was determined to see creative nonfiction recognized as a ...

Nonfiction books are a crucial bulwark against the surging public culture of “alternative facts,” outright lies, and the brazen embrace of ignorance. These developments suggest a rough future for a ...

The organization, which awards the nation’s only major literary prize chose by critics, is sharing six longlists for its 50th anniversary Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster; Harper; Scribner The ...