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The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre: 
An Anthology of Explorations in Creative Nonfiction

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Edited by Sean Prentiss, and Joe Wilkins

Though creative nonfiction has been around since Montaigne, St. Augustine, and Seneca, we’ve only just begun to ask how this genre works, why it functions the way it does, and where its borders reside. But for each question we ask, another five or ten questions roil to the surface. And each of these questions, it seems, requires a more convoluted series of answers. What’s more, the questions students of creative nonfiction are drawn to during class discussions, the ones they argue the longest and loudest, are the same ideas debated by their professors in the hallways and at the corner bar. In this collection, sixteen essential contemporary creative nonfiction writers reflect on whatever far, dark edge of the genre they find themselves most drawn to. The result is this fascinating anthology that wonders at the historical and contemporary borderlands between fiction and nonfiction; the illusion of time on the page; the mythology of memory; poetry, process, and the use of received forms; the impact of technology on our writerly lives; immersive research and the power of witness; a chronology and collage; and what we write and why we write.

Contributors: Nancer Ballard, H. Lee Barnes, Kim Barnes, Mary Clearman Blew, Joy Castro, Robin Hemley, Judith Kitchen, Brenda Miller, Ander Monson, Dinty W. Moore, Sean Prentiss, Lia Purpura, Erik Reece, Jonathan Rovner, Bob Shacochis, and Joe Wilkins.

Published by Michigan State University Press, 2014.


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Awards

  • Poets & Writers Best Books for Writers

Reviews of The Far Edges

  • MLive reviews Far Edges of the Fourth Genre.
  • Seven Days reviews The Far Edges.
  • Cirque Lit Magazine reviews The Far Edges. 
  • New Madrid reviews The Far Edges.

Interviews about The Far Edges

  • A 30 minute radio interview with Veront Edition on Vermont Public Radio: "Just Give Me Truth (And a Good Story)."
  • An interview at Brevity where I talk about creative nonfiction.
  • An interview at Brevity where Joe Wilkins talks about creative nonfiction.
  • An interview at Hippocampus Magazine

Excerpts from The Far Edges

  • Brevity shares Jonathan Rovner's essay, "Refresh."
  • Terrain shares Erik Reece's essay, "The Act of Writing: Speak and Bear Witness."
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