Thoughts on Creative Non-Fiction

This week, I reviewed Dr. Burton's post on creative non-fiction and started thinking about things I don't like about non-fiction. I had the fortune/misfortune to read a short memoir called "from Heaven and Earth in Jest" by Annie Dillard. It's a creepy story about this bug who latches onto frogs, injects them with "the most painful insect bite known" and poison that melts their organs and bones into a goo, and then sucks the goo out of their body, leaving "a frog skin bag" to float away. Feeling nauseous? Me too!