Can someone recommend a book that would be considered Creative Non-Fiction?
Why yes. Yes, I can. That’s what I write, and that’s mostly what I read, so here you go. “Creative nonfiction” involves different “styles,” like memoirs or personal profiles that journalists and other writers create about people they interview or just know. My very-favorite essayist would have to be David Sedaris. He’s hilarious – and all of his books, so far, have been entertaining. I’d go with “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” which is full of essays about speech therapy, his family, and other such subjects. I really enjoyed reading David Foster Wallace’s “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.” That’s a long, but wildly entertaining, essay about a cruise that he took specifically so that he could write about it for a magazine. Nicholas Pileggi wrote “Wiseguys” – the movie “Goodfellas” was based on Michael Hall and his buddies. Pileggi got to interview the Halls while they were in Witness Protection, and this is the book that came of it. It’s a fascinating read. Steve Almond’s “Candyfre
