Nonfiction with Brandon Reynolds

The Really Real, Absolutely True Story (Almost): The Tricky World of Nonfiction
When a tree falls in the woods, what happens next depends on the observer – maybe it becomes a canoe, maybe it sues the lumber company, maybe it falls on the observer. But that story, like anything that happens in the world, is created by the writer. So nonfiction, as it is seen in journalism, walks a delicate line between telling a good story and telling the truest one you can. This class will teach writers how to pay attention to the stories the world tells, how to relate them responsibly, and how to get at that truth without sacrificing story. Then the writers will tell the stories of the people sitting right next to them.

Brandon Reynolds is the Arts & Culture Editor for Style Weekly. His fiction has been published there and in the Texas Review. He’s currently working on a history of Valentine’s Meat-Juice and other strange things to drink.