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Hierarchy Of Needs
Barraged with ads for products promising happiness, the author wonders, "Can we want things that we do not know about?"Issue 62
The Way to a Reader’s Heart…
Essential memoirs of family mealsIssue 54
Encounter: Buzz Bissinger
To many, Buzz Bissinger is best-known as the author of the 1990 best-selling nonfiction book “Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team and A Dream,” the result of a year-long immersion in the small town of Odessa, Texas.Required Reading
In her groundbreaking 1999 article “The Essay Canon,” Lynn Z. Bloom argued that the essays most people know—the essays that, effectively, define the genre—are the ones that appear most frequently in freshman composition anthologies.Encounter: Ruth Reichl
Creative Nonfiction caught up with Ruth Reichl during a rare lull in her hectic schedule, which is usually jam-packed with a variety of creative projects and speaking engagements around the United States and abroad.
Encounter: Lauren Slater
It’s hard to think of a writer whose work has consistently provoked such intense reactions as Lauren Slater’s does. Beginning with her 1996 memoir, “Welcome to My Country,” published when she was only 33 years old, Slater has been praised for her candor and for the power and immediacy of her prose, which can be both beautiful and unsettling.Unafraid of the Dark
Writing about traumatic events without traumatizing your readers: a profile of Heather SellersIssue 66
Prometheus Unbound
The forces that keep us goingIssue 66
Thumpity-Thump
No one knows by what magic the heart starts beatingIssue 66
Piecing It Together
A mad doctor's barbaric crime has a lasting impact on his lawyer's daughterIssue 66
