Creative Nonfiction - Fall 2017

CREATIVE NONFICTION 59 SYLVIA SUKOP is an MFA candidate in the creative writing program at Washington University in St. Louis. S ...

60 UNDER THE STARS |^ SYLVIA SUKOP new to the United States, she was in the first flush of exploring her gay identity and had fo ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 61 the Pacific Northwest, and on Memorial Day weekend, he had been rushed into surgery straight from the E.R ...

62 for many people, Jewish liturgy could be one long, keening lamentation, especially during the Days of Awe. It’s when Jews, as ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 63 illuminating the darkest mysteries of the human body. He is neither frightened nor angry. He speaks. And ...

64 “He’s going to be okay,” the chaplain said. “God is going to take care of him. You don’t need to worry about that.” Like an a ...

Wreckage: My Father’s Legacy of Art & Junk BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS “Taking on the wreckage,” Sascha Feinstein writes of th ...

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CREATIVE NONFICTION 67 KRISTIN JOHNSON is an associate professor in the Science, Technology and Society Program at the Universit ...

68 THE BEST PANACEAS FOR HEARTACHES |^ KRISTIN JOHNSON Billy Sunday was not known for nuance; a journalist once described a Sund ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 69 to certain events in men and women’s lives, and certain paragraphs in their writings, made Sunday’s sermo ...

70 as his memory and body failed him, so that he was “almost continually afflicted with pain,” he urged his friend James Petiver ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 71 When we reflect on the perpetual destruction of organic life, we should also recollect, that it is perpet ...

72 another, and thus evil be produced. He gave the following example: Suppose ... that a boy, in the course of the lively sports ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 73 attempt to counter increasing talk of a conflict between God and Evolution, most evident in Wil- liam Jen ...

74 TRUE STORIES, WELL TOLD. PIRIT literally means “breath.” Something takes our breath away, renders us helpless or transformed ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 75 Ask Questions, Use Details Start with humility. You are trying, but in terms of being able to completely ...

76 TRUE STORIES, WELL TOLD. to do in his letters. But there’s also a trace of I-don’t-know-what-this-is- but-I’m-on-the-path-to- ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 77 blacks look up or down but not at each other and whites look away, he “[gives] up all hope of communion” ...

78 TRUE STORIES, WELL TOLD. bankrupt morning I will simply open my notebook and there it will all be... Didion’s ritual—the dail ...