Mark Twain once said, “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” The essays in this collection help the writer of creative nonfiction know how to use the facts and effectively infuse a piece with the... Read More

Setting lobster traps in the cold Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine has a fearful but gripping appeal to sixteen-year-old Dain Harrington. “I know it was strange, wanting to be a lobsterman and all, but the truth is I was scared of... Read More

Words surround color photographs, singing and dancing a journey around the world. In twenty-five chapters detailing encounters with women, from Australia to Tobago to the United States of America, Bickman imparts the peace and wisdom she... Read More

We travel initially to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves… And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in and fall in love once more. This excerpt from Pico Iyer’s... Read More