I'll tell you mine : thirty years of essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program / edited by Hope Edelman and Robin Hemley ; prologue by Robert Atwan.

Collection of stories by graduates of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program.

Prologue: how nonfiction finally achieved literary status / Robert Atwan -- Blue note / Marilyn Abildskov -- Black men / Faith Adiele -- Borders / Jon Anderson -- Cousins / Jo Ann Beard -- O wilderness / Joe Blair -- Anechoic / Ashley Butler -- Round trip / John D'Agata -- Bruce Springsteen and the story of us / Hope Edelman -- The rain makes the roof sing / Tom Montgomery Fate -- How I know Orion / Will Jennings -- Grammar lessons: the subjunctive mood / Michele Morano -- Judy! Judy! Judy! / Elena Passarello -- The Bamenda syndrome / David Torrey Peters -- High maintenance / John T. Price -- Slaughter / Bonnie Rough -- Things I will want to tell you on our first date but won't / Ryan Van Meter -- The last days of the baldock / Inara Verzemnieks -- Desperate for the story / George Yatchisin.

The University of Iowa is a leading light in the writing world. In addition to the Iowa Writers Workshop for poets and fiction writers, it houses the prestigious Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP), which was the first full-time masters-granting program in this genre in the United States. Over the past three decades the NWP has produced some of the most influential nonfiction writers in the country