TABLE OF CONTENTS

LEE GUTKIND • From the Editor
LEE GUTKIND • Creative Nonfiction: A Movement, Not a Moment
DANIEL NESTER • Notes on Frey
FOR FURTHER READING • Works referenced in this issue

SPECIAL SECTION: The ABCs of CNF

Acknowledgment of Sources
Backdoor Access
Composite Characters
Compression
The Creative Nonfiction Writer as Tour Guide
Defamation and Libel
The Evolution of Creative Nonfiction
Fact-Checking
Facts
Frame
Gunkholing
The History of Memoir
The “I”
Immersion (read it online!)
Influencing Readers
Legal Responsibilities of Publishers
Metaphor
Narrative History
The Narrative Impulse
Navel-Gazing
Point of View
Reconstruction of Scene and Dialogue
Subjectivity
Tape Recording
Truth
Use of Family Members as Characters
The Vagaries of Memory (read an excerpt online!)
Whose Story to Tell
Writers’ Responsibilities to Subjects

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

A Million Little Choices: The ABCs of CNF contains a glossary of concise entries that define and explain the anchoring elements of narrative nonfiction—memoir, personal essay, literary journalism—and beyond. It's everything you need to know to avoid the James Frey jinx.

This special issue also contains an introductory essay by editor Lee Gutkind, explaining the evolution of the creative nonfiction genre, and a behind-the-scenes snapshot of Frey, the subject of recent uproar about the issue of truth in creative nonfiction