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Picnic in the Democratic Forest

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When Immersion Journalism and Memoir Collide

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Ruth Reichl

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In a Disorder on Purpose

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AfterWORDS: The Art of the Start

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On Guarding Against an Over-Active Imagination

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Issue 74, Moments of Clarity
Winter 2021

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What Is Creative Nonfiction?

Lee Gutkind

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Tim Bascom

How to Write Like a Mother#^@%*&

Elissa Bassist & Cheryl Strayed

Regeneration

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Mad Love: The Ballad of Fred & Allie

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The Eroticism of Essaying

Nicola Waldron

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Elissa Wald

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Lee Gutkind

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