Creative Nonfiction editor Lee Gutkind: Living it is writing it is living it

Published: May 20, 2010, 2:19 p.m.

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Colin Marshall talks to Lee Gutkind, founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction, the premiere journal of the eponymous genre of writing that combines the literary techniques of fiction with the reality of life itself. With its spring 2010 issue, it\\u2019s undergone a radical revision in look, feel and sensibility, shifting from academic journal to wider-interest magazine. He\\u2019s also the author of many books that fall under the creative nonfiction heading, exploring subjects like baseball, transplant surgeries and robotics. His latest, the father-son memoir Truckin\\u2019 with Sam: A Father and Son, The Mick and The Dyl, Rockin\\u2019 and Rollin\\u2019, On the Road, comes out this summer.

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