Issue #42, Summer 2011
Unthemed
Creative Nonfiction's summer issue is packed with prize-winning work: winning essays from CNF and Salt's "The Night" contest, CNF's MFA Program-Off and the Norman Mailer College Writing contest.
Plus, Phillip Lopate and Lee Gutkind grapple with the implications of facts; Pulitzer Prize-winner Ira Berkow finds inspiration in the art world; Paul West enters the mind of Nazi turncoat Hermann Fegelein in a new Pushing the Boundaries selection; Susan Orlean talks about teaching young writers; and more.
From the issue:
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What's the Story by Lee Gutkind
From the Editor -
In a Disorder on Purpose: The Diary and the Status Feed by Lisa Schamess
The 17th century’s most famous diarist finds new life on Twitter -
What We’re Hungry For by Sugar
A CNF Online blogpost
Table of Contents
FROM THE EDITOR Lee Gutkind ... read more
The 17th century's most famous diarist finds new life on Twitter Lisa Schamess ... read more
ENCOUNTER: Susan Orlean
for(e)closure S. J. Dunning
My Night with Ellen Hutchinson Bud Shaw
Extinction J. D. Lewis
Suffering Self Minh Phuong Nguyen
The Skeleton Woman Casey Clabough
Fact-Checking: the devil's in the details Lee Gutkind
Nonfiction may be a construct, but does that make it fiction? Phillip Lopate
A Different Kind of Truth Gabriel Scala
Art and the sportswriter Ira Berkow
Herman Fegelein: Getting Out of Dodge Paul West
Twitter Micro-essays
File Not Found Rebecca Butorac
ARTWORK Seth Clark
Contributors
Ira Berkow
Ira Berkow has been a sports columnist and feature writer for The New York Times for 26 years. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for his feature... read more
Rebecca Butorac
Rebecca Butorac is a bibliophile who manages construction projects and performs odd jobs in Athens County, Ohio, to feed her book habit.... read more
Casey Clabough
Casey Clabough is the author of the travel memoir The Warrior's Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Route as well as four scholarly... read more
Seth Clark
Seth Clark earned his BFA in Graphic Design, focusing primarily in print design and alternative typography, at the Rhode Island School of... read more
S. J. Dunning
S. J. Dunning was born and raised in Ellensburg, Wash. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Idaho, where she is drafting... read more
J. D. Lewis
J. D. Lewis' essays have appeared in Hunger Mountain and Memoir (and). She holds an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa and is... read more
Phillip Lopate
Phillip Lopate's nonfiction books include essay collections (Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body); film criticism... read more
Minh Phuong Nguyen
Minh Phuong Nguyen holds undergraduate degrees in English and Nutritional Sciences and is a current MA candidate in creative nonfiction... read more
Gabriel Scala
Gabriel Scala is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Leaping from the Bottom Step (1997) and Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle (2004). She... read more
Lisa Schamess
Lisa Schamess lives in Washington, D.C. Her essays and fiction have appeared in Defunct, Antietam Review and Glimmer Train, among other... read more
Bud Shaw
Bud Shaw has been a leading surgeon in the field of liver transplantation during much of the past three decades and served as chairman of... read more
