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Podcast: New Books in Communications
Episode: The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting
Description: Lee Gutkind is the founder of the literary magazine, Creative Nonfiction. Heâs edited or authored over 30 books during his time on the faculty of, first, the University of Pittsburgh and, more recently, Arizona State University. His latest book is The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Neâer-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction (Yale UP, 2024).This episode encapsulates the journey that Lee Gutkind has made, as a self-confessed former hippie motorcyclist who not only âfoughtâ his way into academia but helped revitalize the essay genre along the way. When Gutkind began his Creative Non...