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Before We’re Writers, We’re Readers

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Fifteen contemporary writers of creative nonfiction discuss the nonfiction books they remember best from childhood and which influenced them as writers.

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A Story We Tell Ourselves and Others

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Finding inspiration in marriage memoirs

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A Real-World Education

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Revisiting Studs Terkel's WORKING.

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Binary Truths: Creative nonfiction in our electronic age

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Full Disclosure

The Modern Sex Worker Memoir

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Issue 69, Intoxication
Winter 2019

Writers drunk on lust, life, booze, beauty, words, and the Holy Spirit more

What is Creative Nonfiction?

Lee Gutkind

Picturing the Personal Essay: A Visual Guide

Tim Bascom

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

Elissa Bassist & Cheryl Strayed

Organic Whimsy

Leah Stauber

Sing It Loud: Looking to Music for Lessons on Embracing Vulnerability on the Page

Jenny O'Connell

A Priest Walks into a Bar

Sarah Shotland

An Apprentice to the World

Adelheid Fischer

In Search of Moments of Real Connection

Shannon Swearingen

The Marrying Kind

Jane Bernstein