Responses to Chapters 1 & 2 of Creating Nonfiction

The first two chapters of Creating Nonfiction served as a very general introduction to the topic of "creative nonfiction," discussing what it does and doesn't encompass and the subgenres therein.  The text gives vague descriptions of both what is creative nonfiction and what is subgenres are, mostly through the use of example rather than definition.  These subgenres include memoir; essay; critiques, rants, and reviews; lyric and reflective essays; place writing; the city essay; and literary journalism.

I found the text to be very subjective, casting judgment calls on many types of creative nonfiction.  I believe the fact that the text deems each category worthy or unworthy, deeming it so as if it were fact, detracts severely from its objectivity and therefore from its authority.  I hope to see more objectivity and strict exposition from the rest of the book.