Writing with Monty (about Painting with John)
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ In Writing Creative Nonfiction (2001), which serves as a guide to writing in the genre, the book’s editors, Carolyn Forché and Philip Gerard, define “creative nonfiction” in their introduction: “Creative nonfiction has emerged in the last few years as the province of factual prose that is also literary —infused with the stylistic devices, tropes, and rhetorical flourishes of the best fiction and the most lyrical of narrative poetry. It is fact-based writing that remains compelling. . . . It is storytelling of a very high order—through the revelation of character and the suspense of plot, the subtle braiding of themes, rhythms and resonance, memory and imaginative research, precise and original language, and a narrative stance that is intelligent, humble, questioning, distinctive, individual and implicitly alert to the world.” @@@@@@@@@@@@@ It’s night on the farm where I live. To my right, ...