What is fiction exactly, and how is it distinguished from nonfiction? One prominent set of problems relates to fictional names (such as “Sherlock Holmes,”“the Time Machine,”“Casterbridge”), concerning how they might fit into a general semantics for natural languages. Should they be ...
“Rejoice with me, I have beaten psoriasis. There’s this trick I have of not watching the news. Most things don’t happen, and there’s been some debate internally about the order of events. I keep losing things and the obvious answer is that they’ve been stolen! But the investigatio...
Traci Sorell writes fiction and nonfiction for children featuring contemporary characters and compelling biographies, including the Sibert Honor booksWe Are Grateful: OtsaliheligaandWe Are Still Here!. She is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation and lives in northeastern Oklahoma, where her trib...
Kathleen Jamieis a poet and writer of creative nonfiction about nature. She has written three wonderful collections that I have adored.Findings (2005), my favourite, included essays about the Hebridean and Orkney Islands near her home in Fife and Peregrines nesting;Sightlines (2012)covers a fasc...
Based on her nonfiction books. Get activ-ist!:“What cause would you defend…and how would you defend it?” We’ll discuss various forms of activism and what is important to students right now. We’ll come up with methods to get messages across and students will put ideas into action ...
For those who fear a heavy-handed instructive tone weighing down a lovely story, don’t. I’m sensitive to that fault, myself (okay, it was nonfiction, but I lovedCountywhile lamenting its overly-obviouspoint). But it’s not an issue here. Canfield is matter-of-fact in her portrayals...
This is Charlie’s first time on the Clarke Award shortlist, but she’s already very well known within the science fiction community and has had multiple other award nods for both her fiction and nonfiction, for example a Hugo Award nomination forthe podcast she runs with the science fiction...
It is generally better for everyone for you to be clear than for you to be merely concise. Most college freshmen (most people, actually) make the mistake of thinking what they feel is clear to them, is clear to the reader. And they think that if they see it as obviously true, the...
the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope...
So these nonfiction books fill a gap. They are a way of keeping my hand in the game while I try to collect myself for another novel. It will be interesting to read that forthcoming book, and see how much overlap there is with Antarctica –as that novel has a significant amount of ...