Creative Nonfiction - Fall 2017

CREATIVE NONFICTION 19 The word God springs from the gut in such cases. It’s the last sound we make as we move toward speechless ...

23 BEYOND THE PRIMORDIAL OOZE: “REAL” AMERICANS AND THE SUPPOSED DIVIDE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION Dinty W. Moore Searching fo ...

49 “SHUDDERING BEFORE THE BEAUTIFUL”: TRAINS OF THOUGHT ACROSS THE MORMON COSMOS Jamie Zvirzdin If the Church is the train, head ...

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CREATIVE NONFICTION 23 DINTY W. MOORE Beyond the Primordial Ooze: “Real” Americans and the Supposed Divide Between Science and R ...

24 BEYOND THE PRIMORDIAL OOZE |^ DINTY W. MOORE “We got one on every corner,” John boasts. “We’re in the Guinness Book of World ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 25 cameras, and my questions were as simple as I could make them: Is the rift between those who favor scienc ...

26 ing, expresses disappointment that there are no openings at the plant where his father works, Don finally joins in: “Yeah. Th ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 27 Deb, with a PhD in biochemistry from Ohio State, worked a while in cancer research, then went on to direc ...

28 later that day, I leap across the Juniata River to meet Jeff Imler, a biology teacher for 34 years at Williamsburg High, home ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 29 did humans happen to arrive on the planet— his answers seem evasive at best. Maybe that’s necessary if yo ...

30 easement on his land, guaranteeing that it will remain a farm in perpetuity. Though he deeply loves farming, he constantly wo ...

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CREATIVE NONFICTION 33 WINNER! Best Essay Prize RACHEL WILKINSON is a Pittsburgh-based writer and researcher whose essays and pr ...

34 SEARCH HISTORY |^ RACHEL WILKINSON Why do people kill themselves? How large is the blast radius of a nuclear bomb? Does anyo ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 35 speech rather than computer commands. Squarely in the realm of artificial intelligence, natural lan- guag ...

36 on my smartphone. I carry it with me; I shouldn’t need to search for it at all. But here I am, searching. my favorite bit by ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 37 millennia, in conversation with some of the greatest thinkers who have ever lived. For that student’s pos ...

38 Athenian Grill restaurant Belmont happy hour Second Austin There are times I see Google as a loving parent, leading me thro ...