John McPhee’s piece on writing and “Omission” in The New Yorker is deservedly making the rounds… and includes this shout-out to Lee Gutkind and Creative Nonfiction!:
“Creative nonfiction is a term that is currently having its day. When I was in college, anyone who put those two words together would have been looked on as a comedian or a fool. Today, Creative Nonfiction is the name of the college course I teach. Same college. Required to give the course a title, I named it for a quarterly edited and published by Lee Gutkind, then at the University of Pittsburgh.”
Omission: Choosing what to leave out. by John McPhee @NewYorker http://t.co/apnXA0BWFN #amwriting pic.twitter.com/ogmTtCw8Qm
— Electric Literature (@ElectricLit) September 10, 2015