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On the Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting
Lee Gutkind remembers the contentious years leading up to Creative Nonfiction’s debut.Issue 50
Intro to “The Intimacy of Forks”
When we decided to dedicate an issue to food, we hoped (as we do with every theme issue) that we would get a wide range of stories, and we did—more than two hundred in all.Issue 50
Intro to “Eight Questions You Would Ask Me If I Told You My Name”
In February 2010, we re-branded and re-launched Creative Nonfiction, transforming it from a traditional literary journal to a quarterly magazine. The redesign was quite possibly one of the most challenging—and rewarding—projects we’d tackled up to then.Issue 50
Intro to “Then You’ll Be Straight”
I began copy editing for Creative Nonfiction in 2005, with issue 26. At that time, the journal followed the AP Stylebook, which kicked my heiney at first, especially with its twisted rules regarding italics, which drove me to the edge of insanity.Issue 50
Intro to “Hector and the Beauty Queens”
A few years ago, I went through a phase where I watched episode after episode of the reality show America’s Next Top Model. It was a guilty pleasure; I loved seeing the contestants pose for photo shoots in telephone booths or freshly dug graves.Issue 50
Intro to “Ramalamadingdong”
My first reaction to Creative Nonfiction’s issue 17 was to wince. The journal had the same front cover design for each issue back then, with only a color change and new number, and I suppose it was inevitable that canary yellow would come along eventually. But it was not the magazine’s best day, design-wise.Issue 50
Intro to “The Necessity of Poetry”
In the early days of the journal, all of the submissions arrived in hard copy, and it was easy to recognize patterns having to do with the writer or the subject.Issue 50
“How Many Times Did You Almost Go out of Business with This Thing?”
Michael Rosenwald discovers what keeps CNF’s founding editor goingIssue 50
The Square Root of True
A brief history of the #cnftweet.Issue 50
Intro to “Notes from a Difficult Case”
“Rage and Reconciliation” was my second issue as managing editor, and I have to admit my heart sank when Lee told me we were going to do an entire issue devoted to healthcare.Issue 50