Issue #73, Memoir
Fall 2020
This issue celebrates stories of the self in the world. Writers find (or, at least, try to find) meaning in familiar as well as unimaginable moments—the loves, losses, and joys that define our lives.
Also in this issue: the seductive dangers of self-mythologizing, the memoir-in-pieces, tiny truths, and more.
* This issue is SOLD OUT. All new subscriptions will start with issue #74.
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"What's the Story" by Lee Gutkind
From the editor
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"Bloodlines and Bitter Syrup" by Will Bridges
Avoiding prison in Huntsville, Texas, is nearly impossible
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"The Wolf and the Dog" by Megan Doney
In the aftermath of a school shooting, a teacher prepares for the next time
Table of Contents
What's the Story #73 Lee Gutkind ... read more
The Story of a Self Will Storr
The Kaleshion Jerald Walker
In the Beginning, In the End Abby Mims
Weaponry of the Cold War Mary Beth Ellis
Bloodlines and Bitter Syrup Will Bridges ... read more
The Afterdeath Jill Deasy
How to Hang a Mezuzah Rachel Beanland
The Wolf and the Dog Megan Doney ... read more
Listening to My Father's Accent Anna Monardo
The Memoir-In-Pieces Beth Kephart
Study Guide for Your Teenage Self Gabe Montesanti
Contributors
Rachel Beanland
Rachel Beanland writes essays and fiction and is the author of the novel Florence Adler Swims Forever, which was recently released by Simon... read more
Will Bridges
Will Bridges is a professor of Japanese literary studies at the University of Rochester. He is currently writing “Vivisection: A... read more
Jill Deasy
Jill Deasy is a recent graduate of Pacific University’s MFA program. She lives with her family in Bellevue, Washington, where she is... read more
Megan Doney
Megan Doney is an English professor in Virginia. She has been profiled in New York magazine and Vice, and her essays have appeared in ... read more
Mary Beth Ellis
Mary Beth Ellis is a freelance writer, speaker, and college teacher who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. A graduate of Saint Mary’s College... read more
Lee Gutkind
Lee Gutkind, recognized by Vanity Fair as “the Godfather behind creative nonfiction,” is the founder and editor of Creative... read more
Beth Kephart
Beth Kephart is the award-winning author of thirty books and dozens of essays, an award-winning adjunct at the University of Pennsylvania,... read more
Abby Mims
Abby Mims’s work has appeared in the New York Times (Modern Love), Longreads, the Washington Post, Brevity, Ploughshares, and Nailed... read more
Anna Monardo
Anna Monardo’s essays, stories, and poems have appeared in the Sun, Fourth Genre, Prairie Schooner, Hotel Amerika, and More. Her two... read more
Gabe Montesanti
Gabe Montesanti has an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and teaches creative writing at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center... read more
Will Storr
Will Storr is an award-winning journalist and novelist whose work has appeared in the Guardian, Sunday Times, the New Yorker, and the New... read more
Jerald Walker
Jerald Walker is the author of The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult and Street Shadows: A Memoir of... read more
Comments
Nicole
October 15, 2020
I’m not surprised this issue is sold out. But when will it be restocked?