Reviews for Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction

The average rating for Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-08-22 00:00:00 Terry Aubrey This is an excellent tool for exploring ways to liven up your writing and develop memoirs. Great exercises that had me digging up old photographs and reliving my past.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-01-05 00:00:00 SHAWN SMITH "Media outlets pick easy stories with safe facts and safe ideas, clustering around official sources for protection, reducing everything they touch to simplicity without understanding, recycling consensus facts and ideas regardless of their validity because that is what the punters expect, joining any passing moral panic, obsessively covering the same stories as their competitors. Arbitrary, unreliable and conservative . . . this flow of falsehood and distortion through the news factory is clearly being manipulated, by the overt world of PR and the covert world of intelligence and strategic communications . . . the boundaries of acceptability have slowly slipped backward . . . what was scandalous is now merely normal. Somewhere out there, the truth is dying." (pp. 255-256) A highly recommended read, and a good companion to Knightfall: Knight Ridder and How the Erosion of Newspaper Journalism Is Putting Democracy at Risk and Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It.