How to regenerate a human heart

"My primary source materials are vintage books and magazines—deemed no longer useful or relevant— and rescued from thrift stores and attics and antique shops. Maybe what I’m really trying to do is give these publications a second life."

My own technology-enabled search-and-destroy mission began with the word maybe. There were nearly sixty maybes in my 300-page manuscript, a Microsoft Word-savvy critiquer pointed out. “More assertive statements,” she advised.

"School started again in the fall, my tan faded, I trudged into Saint Andrew the Apostle with scissors, Elmer’s Glue, a pencil case and brand new textbooks with pages that were blurry yet vivid to the touch..."

Shocking discoveries that change everything

Are journalism and creative nonfiction mutually exclusive?

This list offers links to examples of electronic nonfiction, a genre I discuss at greater length in Issue 47 of Creative Nonfiction. Here, I’ve chosen examples that are specifically made with and meant to be experienced on computers.

Here is what islanders agree on when they tell the story of Kendrick Britton: he was beautiful, tall, and wrapped in muscles he earned breaking gravel for construction projects in the days before it was imported.

"I can’t think about my mother, who is dying slowly and furiously. My grief is an unpacked box of sharp pieces stacked in a dark storeroom; I lug around a catalog of unfinished business."

I am suspended from his large brown eye. It is concentrating, peering closely into my own eye. I am afraid I will fall. I feel the heat of the lamp on my forehead, this surgeon’s hands on my face, and the sharp pressure of metal on my eye surfacing through the numbing drops.