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Susan Orlean
A discussion about CNF and teaching between Lee Gutkind and Susan OrleanIssue 42
The 17th century’s most famous diarist finds new life on Twitter
A writer opens her inbox to a 350-year-old quote by Samuel PepysIssue 42
What’s the Story #42
For nearly a half-dozen years in the 1980s, I carried a beeper, wore blue surgical scrubs and soared through the night in Learjets while immersing myself in the world of organ transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh for a book I was writing.Issue 42
What We’re Hungry For
In February of 2010, an e-mail popped into my in-box. It was from a friend and fellow writer who had a proposition for me: Would I like to take over an anonymous online advice column called "Dear Sugar", which had been running intermittently over the past year on a Web site called The Rumpus?Issue 42
Herman Fegelein: Getting Out of Dodge
According to the poet Gottfried Benn, to delve deep into yourself entitles you to something called “the domestic form of emigration.”You go abroad without leaving home. So, then, being shot by the Führer’s armed guards surely entitles you to the same exemption.Issue 42
Art and the sportswriter
Indeed, poets writing creative nonfiction have to learn a great many things; we have to learn how to breathe all over again. And while we encourage young poets to stray from the truth when writing, this is not because we are looking for fiction but because we want them to seek out the larger truth in the moment being described.Issue 42
A Different Kind of Truth
As a poet new to nonfiction, I often found it difficult to flesh out a narrative fully in prose. After conditioning my poetic eye to look for words to cut—those pesky, extraneous articles and conjunctions—I suddenly found myself looking for places where words were missing, where more words were needed.Issue 42
Fact-Checking: the devil’s in the details
We recently received a letter from an annoyed reader who discovered a factual error in an essay Creative Nonfiction published.Issue 42
for(e)closure
I want to say I am an expert on foreclosure—I feel an onus to provide a sturdy framework for what follows, to be more well-read on the subject than most—but even reviewing the titles of books chronicling the mortgage crisis and foreclosure is overwhelming.Issue 42
My Night with Ellen Hutchinson
Most of them took place at night—the battles we sometimes lost but always survived. It’s not that we wanted to be up all night or that we could breathe easier once the sun came up and the outcome seemed inevitable; we simply had no control over when the phone rang.Issue 42