The Literary Collaborative

John interviews the talented award-winning journalist Anna Clark, author of "The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy", to discuss journalism, literature, and the meeting of both worlds.

As a genre, creative nonfiction is often painted with a broad brush; consequently, its definition is pliable. Put succinctly, it is "true stories, well told"*; more expansively,  it crosses a broad palette encompassing the realms of journalism, essay, history, memoir, autobiography, etc.--all with varying shades of creativity and nonfiction. It naturally implies the use of craft elements dispensed in factually accurate prose, the subject of which is "the real". In this inaugural episode of LC, John discusses the genre with award-winning essayist Arielle Schussler, exploring its classification, boundaries, and potentialities.  

*Creative Nonfiction Magazine