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The 5 Rs of Creative Nonfiction
What's the Story #06Issue 06
Meander
A Nova show about the forms of nature prompts me to look up meander. Having always used the word to refer to walking, I am surprised to learn that it comes from water.Issue 01 / Issue 50 / Issue 06
A Conversation with Diane Ackerman
When the man behind the concierge desk calls out my name, I look up to see a phone receiver being waved in my direction. “Kathleen, it’s Diane. I’ll be there, but I’m a little distance away.Issue 03 / Issue 06
Nonfiction in First Person, Without Apology
In his introduction to the 1989 The Best American Essays, Geoffrey Wolff tells a story about how, in writing an essay on King Lear as a young boarding school boy, he could not help but narrate some of his own misunderstandings with his Duke of Deception father to illustrate his sympathy with Cordelia.Issue 01 / Issue 06 / Creating Nonfiction (eBook)