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A site dedicated to the art of writing non-fiction stories (also known as narrative or literary non-fiction). See links under my profile for my non-fiction stories, journalism and essays.















6/24/2020

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Name: Paul Ciotti
Location: Eagle Rock (Los Angeles), California, United States

I write articles, columns, books, very occasional screenplays and make amateur videos. I also maintain a dozen or so blog sites, some better than others.

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Narrative Non-Fiction Reference Works

  • Writing Resource List From the Poynter Institute
  • The 3 R's of Creative Non-Fiction
  • Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism
  • You Can't Make This Stuff Up, by Lee Gutkind

My Own Narrative Non-Fiction Stories

  • If It Happened Here
  • Murder in the Math Department
  • Love In Venice
  • Why Did He Cut That Man's Leg Off?
  • Two Tales of One City
  • The Cop That Cried
  • The Scud That Hit Greensburg
  • Adrift on a Troubled Sea
  • Mike Bradbury's Never Ending Obsession
  • Revenge of the Nerds
  • Beheading on Mt. Baldy
  • Murder On The Last Turn

My Other Stories & Essays, listed by publication (see below)

    Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine

    • Harlan Ellison Chews Trees
    • Bukowski Has Feelings Too
    • How I First Sold My First Script To The Movies
    • Michael Herr Likes Wine Just Fine
    • Mr. Keck's Bequest
    • Tom Boyle Likes To Write In The Rain
    • The Man Who Didn't Write ET
    • Tempest In a Toybox--the Stealth Fighter flap
    • Lite Romance
    • The Scud That Hit Greensburg
    • Adrift on a Troubled Sea
    • Mike Bradbury's Never Ending Obsession
    • Alexander Family Murders
    • Strangers In Our Strange Land
    • Oil War II
    • Finding the Titanic
    • Arnold Schwarzenegger
    • Cardinal Mahony
    • Maurice Sendak

    LA Weekly

    • If It Happened Here
    • Casa Real
    • Love In Venice
    • California Dying
    • Paul Fussell on "Class"
    • Why Did He Cut Off That Man's Leg?"
    • Murder On The Last Turn
    • Beheading on Mt. Baldy

    New West (later California)

    • Two Tales of One City
    • Murder in the Math Department
    • Revenge of the Nerds
    • Doing Right By Dorothy
    • Eric's Acting Class
    • The Great Potato Menace
    • Flo's Place

    Daily News

    • Trotting It Out and Tossing It About
    • A Death In the Underpass--Another Reason Not to Tag
    • Of Course We Watched the OJ Simpson Trial
    • Fascistic Feminism and the Demonized Dad
    • Growing Old in Los Angeles
    • Barbarians Taking Over The City
    • I Have Seen The Future And It Makes Me Sick
    • Welfare is Like Feeding Stray Cats
    • NASA Can't Send A Rocket to the Moon Anymore
    • Dead Taggers Need to Get a Life
    • The Day Reagan Was Shot
    • Lemming Nation

    LA Times View Section

    • Forbidden City
    • Armed and Wimpy
    • Life in the Fantasy Lane
    • Mickey Thompson Was A Road Burning Man (unpublished)
    • Materialism and Its Discontents (unpublished)
    • Battery Powered Drills
    • How To Get Out Of A War Zone
    • Psychics
    • Cost of Christmas Decorations

    Heterodoxy

    • Kafka at Zzyzx
    • Guru of Bilingualism
    • The Opposition Really Hates Ward Connerly
    • Clinton's War on the Navy
    • Cheyenne Headdress
    • Don Scott Killing

    AirCal

    • 18 monthly columns

    Reason

    • Freaked Out By Technology

    San Francisco Magazine

    • Nazis Among Us

    Cato Institute

    • America's Most Costly Educational Failure

    Mother Jones

    • Hollywood Backbyting

    San Jose Mercury Sunday Magazine

    • The Cop That Cried

    City Magazine

    • The Things You Put Up With In Blimping Circles
    • To Bud, With Love (From All The Bulls In Tracy)
    • The Gay Lawyer And His Book Of Pansies

    East Bay Express

    • Baldfaced In the Park
    • Ban Mass Transit

    Pacific Southwest Airlines

    • The Man Who Drew The Ducks

    Herald Examiner

    • Linda Abrams Knows Why You Love The First Amendment

    True

    • Johnny Miller On A Bad Day

    New Age

      Gary Snyder and the Quail At Dawn

    LA/San Diego Reader

    • Tommy Thompson
    • Feminism & Its Discontents

    unpublished

    • Rape Or Memorex?
    • Carl Rowan's Paranoid Bigotry

    videos

    • Paul and Bill at Raystown
    • Legends of the Camp
    • Way To Go Blamo

    books

    • More With Less