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Would that our memories were self-selecting. But often what we remember most, and most vividly, are those moments that caught us unawares: the things we wish we hadn't seen and have never been able to shake. This group of prominent American writers tries to come to grips with obsessive memory, the uncanny, and the bad dreams that accompany the moments in our lives when we wish we'd looked away, the places we wish we'd never been, and the scene...

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When Margaret Tobin Brown arrived in New York City shortly after her perilous night in Titanic's Lifeboat Six, a legend was born. Through magazines, books, a Broadway musical, and a Hollywood movie, she became "The Unsinkable Molly Brown, " but in the process her life story was distorted beyond recognition. Even her name was changed-she was never known as Molly during her lifetime. Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth is the first full-length biog...

The first full-length biography of this American icon, tells the story of a passionate and outspoken crusader for the rights of women, children, mine workers, and others struggling for their voice in the early twentieth century. In the end, the real ¿Molly¿ Brown was far more fascinating than her myth.

Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction is the first text to cover all of the major subgenres of this burgeoning field: the Memoir, the Personal Essay, Literary Journalism, Nature Writing, Biography and History, and the Nonfiction Novel. This comprehensive text balances model readings with practical exercises to help students develop their own writing styles and experiment with the techniques and subject matter native to each facet...

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Full Body Burden is Kristen Iversen's story of growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets-both family secrets and government secrets. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what they made at Rocky Flats-best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, s...