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Interview with Theodore Weesner
Theodore Weesner discusses his essay, "Hoop Sex"Issue 22
Interview with Michael Pearson
Michael Pearson answers CNF's questions about his essay, "Innocents Abroad, 2002"Issue 22
Interview with Erica Crowell
Erica Crowell chats with CNF about her essay, "Drowning"Issue 22
Interview with Diane Hume George
Diane Hume George discusses her essay "Zane Grey on a Carousel" with CNFIssue 22
Innocents Abroad, 2002
You can almost guess from the map that Japan is a country of calculated spaces and deep reserve.Issue 22
Drowning by Numbers
It’s early on a Sunday night, late October, in Berkeley, California. The forecasted rain shows no sign of materializing and I am feeling relatively unburdened.Issue 22
Roadkill
The teeth won’t come out, even when I pull hard. It’s because the carcass isn’t old enough. The skull wants to keep the teeth, refuses to be broken apart. Sometimes the teeth shatter in the jaws of the Leatherman tool I keep, along with a pair of work gloves and a Ziploc bag, under the front seat of my car.Issue 22
Hoop Sex
The park is hardly a block away, where lighted ball diamonds come into view on ducking through branches. There, too, is a fenced acre for unleashed dogs, a half dozen tennis courts with yellow balls flying and, close by, a game of summertime hoop under the lights, a scrambling, squeaking, stampede of sweat and bodies on green tarmac.Issue 22
On Being Text
I make a little money now and then by reprinting certain of my essays in college textbooks. Most such books are simply collections of essays, stories and the occasional poem, interspersed with lessons and exercises.Issue 22
Zane Grey on a Carousel in Indian Territory
“Are you part Indian?” I’ve been asked this question all my adult life, especially before my hair went partly gray. No Native American would ever mistake me for a two-heart, but white people often have.Issue 22