#creativenonfiction

A Portrait of the Artist from a Young Sentence

Transformation Is the Theme

May 13 •

The Code: A Fantasia

A Reader’s Review: A Closer Look

Mar 11 •

Lost and Found in Translation

Feb 12 •

Extraordinary Ordinary People I

“We interrupt this life . . . “

Jan 15 •

Route 66: The End of the Road. Or the Journey?

The Magellanic Diaries 7, Part III of "The American Road"

Jan 1 •

Route 66: The Myth, the Model-T, and Mobility

The Magellanic Diaries 7, Part II of "The American Road"

Dec 25, 2023 •

From the Archives: "The Dark Backward"

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? If thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here, How thou camest here thou mayst. Prospero…

Nov 30, 2023 •

The Twentieth Century Passes

Nov 9, 2023 •

A form of memory

Oct 25, 2023 •

September 11, 2001

Sep 13, 2023 •

The Close Read: Missing in Memoir 1

For some years, I taught a class in memoir. Not memoir writing. The genre. A literature class, or as I came to think over my teaching career, a reading…

Aug 16, 2023 •

A Portrait of the Artist from a Young Sentence

The first artful words I ever wrote, the first artful sentence -- I remember it still, I was 15 years old -- was "I died in a fire." You see my…

Aug 4, 2023 •

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