Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
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4.2 (Spring 2018)
4.2 Articles
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Megan Brown, "Testimonies, Investigations, and Meditations: Telling Tales of Violence in Memoir"
Corinna Cook, "Documentation and Myth: On Daniel Janke's How People Got Fire"
Michael W. Cox, "Privileging the Sentence: David Foster Wallace’s Writing Process for “The View from Mrs. Thompson’s”
Sarah Pape, "“Artistically Seeing”: Visual Art & the Gestures of Creative Nonfiction"
Annie Penfield, "Moving Towards What is Alive: The Power of the Sentence to Transform"
Keri Stevenson, "Partnership, Not Dominion: Resistance to Decay in the Falconry Memoir"
4.2 Conversations
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Interview with Jericho Parms (4.2)
"Containing the Hidden Lives of Ordinary Things: A Conversation with Seven Authors"
Amy Monticello, "The New Greek Chorus: Collective Characters in Creative Nonfiction"
Stacy Murison, "David Foster Wallace's 'Ticket to the Fair'"
Emery Ross, "Toward a Craft of Disclosure: Risk, Shame, & Confession in the Harrowing Essay"
4.2 Pedagogy
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Sonya Huber, "Field Notes for a Vulnerable & Immersed Narrator" (4.2)
W. Scott Olsen, "In Other Words" (4.2)
Past Issues
Journal Index
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Author Index
Subject Index
1.1 (Fall 2014)
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Editor's Note
1.1 Articles
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Sarah Heston, "Critical Memoir: A Recovery From Codes" (1.1)
Andy Harper, "The Joke's On Me: The Role of Self-Deprecating Humor in Personal Narrative" (1.1)
Ned Stuckey-French, "Our Queer Little Hybrid Thing" (1.1)
Brian Nerney, "John McCarten’s ‘Irish Sketches’: The New Yorker’s ‘Other Ireland’ in the Early Years of the Troubles, 1968-1974" (1.1)
Wendy Fontaine, "Where Memory Fails, Writing Prevails: Using Fallacies of Memory to Create Effective Memoir" (1.1)
Scott Russell Morris, "The Idle Hours of Charles Doss, or The Essay As Freedom and Leisure" (1.1)
1.1 Conversations
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Donald Morrill, "An Industrious Enchantment" (1.1)
Sonya Huber, "Amazon Constellations" (1.1)
Derek Hinckley, "Fun Home: Change and Tradition in Graphic Memoir" (1.1)
Interview with Melanie Hoffert
Interview with Kelly Daniels
1.1 Pedagogy
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Robert Brooke, "Teaching: 'Rhetoric: The Essay'" (1.1)
Richard Louth, "In Brief: Autobiography and Life Writing" (1.1)
1.2 (Spring 2015)
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1.2 Articles
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Kelly Harwood, "Then and Now: A Study of Time Control in Scott Russell Sanders' 'Under the Influence'" (1.2)
Diana Wilson, "Laces in the Corset: Structures of Poetry and Prose that Bind the Lyric Essay" (1.2)
Randy Fertel, "A Taste For Chaos: Creative Nonfiction as Improvisation" (1.2)
Lynn Z. Bloom, "Why the Worst Trips are the Best: The Comic Travails of Geoffrey Wolff & Jonathan Franzen" (1.2)
Ingrid Sagor, "What Lies Beside Gold" (1.2)
Catherine K. Buni, "Ego, Trip: On Self-Construction—and Destruction—in Creative Nonfiction" (1.2)
Conversations
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Doug Carlson, "Paul Gruchow and Brian Turner: Two Memoirs Go Cubistic" (1.2)
Patrick Madden, "Aliased Essayists" (1.2)
Beth Slattery, "Hello to All That" (1.2)
Interview with Michael Martone (1.2)
Spotlight
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Richard Louth, "The New Orleans Writing Marathon and the Writing World" (1.2)
Kelly Lock-McMillen, "Journey to the Center of a Writer's Block" (1.2)
Jeff Grinvalds, "Bringing It Back Home: The NOWM in My Classroom" (1.2)
Susan Martens, "Finding My Nonfiction Pedagogy Muse at the NOWM" (1.2)
Pedagogy
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Steven Church, "The Blue Guide Project: Fresno" (1.2)
Stephanie Vanderslice, "From Wordstar to the Blogosphere and Beyond: A Digital Literacy and Teaching Narrative (Epiphany Included)" (1.2)
Jessica McCaughey, "That Snow Simply Didn’t Fall: How (and Why) to Frame the Personal Essay as a Critical Inquiry into Memory in the First-Year Writing Classroom" (1.2)
2.1 (Fall 2015)
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Editor's Note2.1
Articles
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Daniel Nester, "Straddling the Working Class Memoir" (2.1)
Sarah M. Wells, "The Memoir Inside the Essay Collection: Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth" (2.1)
Chris Harding Thornton, "Ted Kooser's "Hands": On Amobae, Empathy, and Poetic Prose" (2.1)
Steven Harvey & Ana Maria Spagna, "The Essay in Parts" (2.1)
Megan Culhane Galbraith, "Animals as Aperture: How Three Essayists Use Animals to Convey Meaning and Emotion" (2.1)
Conversations
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Barrie Jean Borich, "Deep Portrait: On the Atmosphere of Nonfiction Character" (2.1)
Tim Bascom, "As I See It: Art and the Personal Essay" (2.1)
Adrian Koesters, "Because I Said So: Language Creation in Memoir" (2.1)
Interview with Simmons Buntin (2.1)
Mike Puican, "Narrative Disruption in Memoir" (2.1)
Pedagogy
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Bernice M. Olivas, "Politics of Identity in the Essay Tradition" (2.1)
Ioanna Opidee, "Essaying Tragedy" (2.1)
Crystal N. Fodrey, "Teaching CNF Writing to College Students: A Snapshot of CNF Pedagogical Scholarship" (2.1)
W. Scott Olsen, "Teaching Adventure, Exploration and Risk" (2.1)
Christian Exoo & Sydney Fallon, "Using CNF to Teach the Realities of Sexual Assault to First Responders: An Annotated Bibliography" (2.1)
Special Conference Issue
2.2 (Spring 2016)
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Articles
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Micah McCrary, "A Legacy of Whiteness: Reading and Teaching Eula Biss’s Notes from No Man’s Land" (2.2)
Marco Wilkinson, "Self-Speaking World" (2.2)
Miles Harvey, "We Are All Travel Writers, We Are All Blind" (2.2)
Ashley Anderson, "Playing with the Essay: Cognitive Pattern Play in Ander Monson and Susan Sontag" (2.2)
Lawrence Evan Dotson, "Persona in Progression: A Look at Creative Nonfiction Literature in Civil Rights and Rap" (2.2)
Conversations
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Julie Platt, "What Our Work is For: The Perils and Possibilities of Arts-Based Research" (2.2)
William Bradley, "On the Pleasure of Hazlitt" (2.2)
Jie Liu, "'Thirteen Canada Geese': On the Video Essay" (2.2)
Stacy Murison, "Memoir as Sympathy: Our Desire to be Understood" (2.2)
Pedagogy
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Stephanie Guedet, "Feeling Human Again: Toward a Pedagogy of Radical Empathy" (2.2)
DeMisty Bellinger-Delfield, "Exhibiting Speculation in Nonfiction: Teaching 'What He Took'" (2.2)
Gail Folkins, "Straight from the Source: Primary Research and the Personality Profile" (2.2)
3.1 (Fall 2016)
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3.1 Articles
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Chelsey Clammer, "Discovering the (W)hole Story: On Fragments, Narrative, and Identity in the Embodied Essay" (3.1)
Sarah Einstein, "'The Self-ish Genre': Questions of Authorial Selfhood and Ethics in First Person Creative Nonfiction" (3.1)
Elizabeth Paul, "Seeing in Embraces" (3.1)
Jennifer M. Dean, "Sentiment, Not Sentimentality" (3.1)
3.1 Conversations
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Interview with Robert Atwan (3.1)
Jody Keisner, "'Did I Miss a Key Point?': A Study of Repetition in Joan Didion’s Blue Nights" (3.1)
Julija Sukys, "In Praise of Slim Volumes: Big Book, Big Evil" (3.1)
Lynn Z. Bloom, "The Great American Potluck Party" (3.1)
Jenny Spinner, "The Best American Essays Series as (Partial) Essay History" (3.1)
3.1 Pedagogy
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Heath Diehl, "The Photo Essay: The Search for Meaning" (3.1)
Sonya Huber, "James Baldwin: Nonfiction of a Native Son" (3.1)
Christian Exoo, "Using CNF to Teach the Realities of Intimate Partner Violence to First Responders: An Annotated Bibliography" (3.1)
John Proctor, "Teachin’ BAE: A New Reclamation of Research and Critical Thought" (3.1)
Richard Gilbert, "Classics Lite: On Teaching the Shorter, Magazine Versions of James Baldwin's 'Notes of a Native Son' and Jonathan Lethem's 'The Beards'" (3.1)
Dawn Duncan & Micaela Gerhardt, "The Power of Words to Build Bridges of Empathy" (3.1)
3.2 (Spring 2017)
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3.2 Articles
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Jennifer Lang, "When Worlds Collide: Writers Exploring Their Personal Narrative in Context" (3.2)
Creighton Nicholas Brown, "Educational Archipelago: Alternative Knowledges and the Production of Docile Bodies in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and Marjane Satrapi’s The Complete Persepolis" (3.2)
Nicola Waldron, "Containing the Chaos: On Spiral Structure and the Creation of Ironic Distance in Memoir" (3.2)
Charles Green, "Remaking Relations: Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates Beyond James Baldwin" (3.2)
Joey Franklin, "Facts into Truths: Henry David Thoreau and the Role of Hard Facts in Creative Nonfiction" (3.2)
3.2 Conversations
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Thomas Larson, "What I Am Not Yet, I Am" (3.2)
Amanda Ake, "Vulnerability and the Page: Chloe Caldwell’s I’ll Tell You In Person" (3.2)
"Interview with Gail Griffin" (3.2)
Alysia Sawchyn, "On Best American Essays 1989" (3.2)
3.2 Pedagogy
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D. Shane Combs, "Go Craft Yourself: Conflict, Meaning, and Immediacies Through J. Cole’s “Let Nas Down” (3.2)
Michael Ranellone, "Brothers, Keepers, Students: John Edgar Wideman Inside and Outside of Prison" (3.2)
Emma Howes & Christian Smith, ""You have to listen very hard”: Contemplative Reading, Lectio Divina, and Social Justice in the Classroom" (3.2)
Megan Brown, "The Beautiful Struggle: Teaching the Productivity of Failure in CNF Courses" (3.2)
4.1 (Fall 2017)
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Editor's Note
4.1 Articles
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Jennifer Case, "Place Studies: Theory and Practice in Environmental Nonfiction"
Bob Cowser, Jr., "Soldiers, Home: Genre & the American Postwar Story from Hemingway to O'Brien & then Wolff"
Sam Chiarelli, "Audience as Participant: The Role of Personal Perspective in Contemporary Nature Writing"
Kate Dusto, "Reconstructing Blank Spots and Smudges: How Postmodern Moves Imitate Memory in Mary Karr's The Liars' Club"
Joanna Eleftheriou, "Is Genre Ever New? Theorizing the Lyric Essay in its Historical Context"
Harriet Hustis, ""The Only Survival, The Only Meaning": The Structural Integrity of Thornton Wilder's Bridge in John Hersey's Hiroshima"
4.1 Conversations
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Taylor Brorby, "On 'Dawn and Mary'"
Steven Harvey, "From 'Leap'"
J. Drew Lanham, "On 'Joyas Voladoras'"
Patrick Madden, "On 'His Last Game'"
Ana Maria Spagna, "On 'How We Wrestle is Who We Are'"
4.1 Pedagogy
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Jacqueline Doyle, "Shuffling the Cards: I Think Back Through Judith Ortiz Cofer"
Amy E. Robillard, "Children Die No Matter How Hard We Try: What the Personal Essay Teaches Us About Reading"
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Subject/Topical Index
A-G
Abram, David (
Wilkinson
)
Addison, Joseph (
Madden
)
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, "The Danger of a Single Story" (
Olivas
)
Adorno, Theodor (
Morris
)
African-American (
Dotson
)
Agee, James (
Brown
)
Aldrich, Marcia (
Wilson
)
Allusion (
Harvey-Spagna
)
Almond, Steve (
Guedet
)
Anderson, Chris,
Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy
(
Fodrey
)
Animals (
Galbraith
,
Liu
,
Wilkinson
, Lanham
)
Anthologies (
Spinner
)
Anzaldua, Gloria,
Borderlands/La Frontera
(
Olivas
)
Anzaldua, Gloria, "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" (
Olivas
)
Ariely, Dan (
Buni
)
Aristotle (
Fertel
)
Arnold, Miah, "You Owe Me" (
Robillard
)
Art (
Bascom
,
Brorby, Buntin
)
Arts-Based Research (
Platt
)
Atwan, Robert (
Opidee
,
Sawchyn
,
Spinner
)
Augustine (
Larson
)
Authorial Persona (
Dotson
,
Liu
,
Cowser
)
Autobiography (
Dotson
,
Wells
,
Wilkinson
,
Cowser
)
Bacon, Francis (
Fertel
,
Morris
)
Baldwin, James (
Green
,
Howes-Smith
)
Baldwin, James, "Notes of a Native Son" (
Gilbert
,
Harvey-Spagna
,
Lang
,
Olivas
)
Baldwin, James, "Me and My House" (
Gilbert
,
Huber 3.1
)
Banks, Adam (
Olivas
)
Barthes, Roland (
Sagor
)
Beard, Jo Ann (
Brooke
,
Wells
)
Beard, Jo Ann, "Fourth State of Matter" (
Borich
,
Galbraith
,
Harvey-Spagna
,
Lang
,
Opidee
,
Wells
)
Bechdel, Alison (
Hinckley
)
Beginnings (
Harvey-Spagna
)
Berkenstein, Cathy (
Brooke
)
Best American Essays
(
Atwan
,
Babine
,
Bloom 3.1
,
Proctor
,
Sawchyn
,
Spinner
)
Bias (
Borich
,
Bascom
)
Birkerts, Sven,
Art of Time in Memoir
(
Wilkinson
)
Bishop, Wendy (
Fodrey
,
Opidee
)
Biss, Eula (
McCrary
,
Wilson
)
Black Elk Speaks
(
Olivas
)
Bloom, Lynn Z., "The Essay Canon" (
Fodrey
,
Spinner
)
Blue Collar Narratives (
Nester
)
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo (
Olivas
)
Boyd, Brian,
On the Origin of Stories
(
Anderson
)
Bragg, Rick (
Louth 1.1
)
Braitman, Laurel (
Galbraith
)
Bresland, John, "On the Origin of the Video Essay" (
Liu
)
Bresland, John, "On Writing for the Ear" (
Liu
)
Built Environment (
Brorby
,
Buntin
)
Buntin, Simmons (
Brorby
)
Burroughs, John, "Real and Sham in Natural History" (
Galbraith
)
Caldwell, Chloe (
Ake
)
Campbell, Kimberly Hill (
Brooke
)
Carlisle, Kelly Grey (
Bellinger-Delfield
)
Carson, Anne (
Wilson
)
Castro, Joy (
Bellinger-Delfield
)
Castro, Joy,
The Truth Book
(
Puican
)
Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung,
Dictee
(
Platt
)
Chabon, Michael, "The Omega Glory" (
Olivas
)
Character (
Borich
,
Hustis
)
Children (
Spagna 4.1)
Christensen, Linda (
Brooke
)
Civil Right (
Dotson
)
Class (
Dotson
,
Nester
,
Olivas
)
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, "Between the World and Me" (
Brown
,
Green
)
Cofer, Judith Ortiz (
Bellinger-Delfield
,
4.1 Doyle
Doyle
)
Cole, J., "Let Nas Down" (
Combs
)
Coming of Age (
Gilbert
,
Nester
)
Compassion (
DuncanGerhardt
,
Guedet
)
Composition Studies (
Brooke
,
Fodrey
,
McCaughey
,
Olivas
,
Spinner
)
Condon, Frankie (
Olivas
)
Context (
Borich
,
Puican
)
Cooper, Bernard, "The Wind Did It" (
Harvey-Spagna
)
Corder, Jim W., (
Fodrey
)
Creative Writing Studies (
Fodrey
)
Critical theory (
Heston
)
Critical thinking (
Diehl
,
Proctor
)
D'Agata, John (
Buni
,
Madden
,
Morris
,
Eleftheriou
)
Danticat, Edwidge (
Opidee
)
Dawson, Paul (
Fodrey
)
Dear Sugar
(
Guedet
)
Deep Portrait (
Borich
)
Deloria, Jr., Vine, "Indian Humor" (
Olivas
)
Derrida, Jacques (
Heston
,
Wilkinson
,
Dusto
)
Dialogue (
Harvey-Spagna
)
Dickenson, Charles (
Morris
)
Didion, Joan (
Brooke
,
Keisner
,
Sawchyn
,
Slattery
,
)
Digital (
Huber 1.1
,
Vanderslice
,
Brorby
,
Buntin
)
Digression (
Puican
)
Dillard, Annie (
Buni
,
Wilson
,
Fertel
)
Dillard, Annie, "Death of a Moth" (
Galbraith
)
Discipline (
Brown
)
Diski, Jenny (
Waldron
)
Distortion (
Bascom
)
Dombek, Kristen (
Brooke
)
Doss, Charles (
Morris
)
Doyle, Brian (
Wilson
,
Harvey-Spagna
,
Harvey
,
Brorby 4.1
,
Madden 4.1
)
Doyle, Brian, "Dawn and Mary" (
Brorby 4.1)
Doyle, Brian, "Joyas Voladoras" (
Harvey-Spagna
,
Lanham
)
Doyle, Brian, "Leap" (
Harvey
)
Duncan, David James (
Harvey-Spagna
)
Dyer, Geoff (
Waldron
)
Ecocriticism (
Galbraith
,
Brorby
,
Buntin
)
Editing (
Brorby
,
Buntin
)
Eggers, Dave (
Buni
)
Elbow, Peter (
Brooke
,
Olivas
)
Ely, Scott, "Random" (
Koesters
)
Emotion (
Bradley
,
Galbraith
,
Guedet
,
Puican
,
Opidee
,
Lanham
)
Empathy (
Harding Thornton
,
Galbraith
,
McCrary
,
Puican
,
Olivas
,
Opidee
,
Geudet
,
DuncanGerhardt
,
Brorby 4.1
,
Robillard
)
Endings (
Harvey-Spagna
)
Environment (
Wilkinson
)
Erasmus (
Fertel
)
Essay (
Brooke
,
McCaughey
,
McCrary
,
Morris
,
Stuckey-French
,
Wilson
)
Ethics (
Borich
,
Harvey, M.
)
Ethnicity (
Doyle
)
Evernden, Neil (
Wilkinson
)
Experimental Forms (
Basiletti
,
Martone
,
Anderson
)
Ekphrastic Nonfiction (
Bascom
)
Failure (
Brown
)
Fallon, Katie (
Chiarelli
)
Family (
Madden 4.1
,
Spagna 4.1
)
Feminism (
Olivas
)
Fingal, Jim (
Buni
,
Madden
)
First-Year Writing (
McCaughey
,
Opidee
,
Fodrey
,
Proctor
)
Flowers, Linda (
Olivas
)
Flynn, Nick,
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
(
Borich
)
Foster, Patricia (
Bascom
)
Ford, Dennis,
The Search for Meaning
(
Diehl
)
Forms of Nonfiction (
Fertel
,
Morrill
,
Stuckey-French
)
Forms, Experimental (
Basiletti
,
Martone
,
Anderson
)
Foucault, Michel (
Brown
)
Franklin, H. Bruce (
Morris
)
Franzen, Jonathan (
Bloom
)
Frazier, Ian (
Madden
)
Freud, Sigmund (
Fertel
,
Sagor
)
Frey, James (
Buni
)
Gaard, Greta (
Case
)
Galbraith, Megan Culhane (
Liu
)
Galeano, Eduardo (
Carlson
)
Gatto, Roseanne (
Fodrey
)
Gender Studies (
Olivas
)
Gender (
Dotson
,
Spinner
,
Doyle
)
Gessner, David,
The Prophet of Dry Hill
(
Case
)
Giffords, Gabrielle (
Huber 1.1
)
Giroux, Henry (
Brooke
)
Goldberg, Natalie (
Louth 1.2
,
Martens
)
Goldsmith, Oliver (
Madden
)
Good, Graham (
Morris
)
Gornick, Vivian (
Harwood
,
Hinckley
,
Lang
)
Gould, Stephen Jay (
Brooke
)
Gradin, Sherrie L. (
Fodrey
)
Graff, Gerald (
Brooke
)
Graphic Nonfiction (
Hinckley
)
Grief (
Galbraith
,
Puican
)
Gruchow, Paul (
Carlson
)
Gutkind, Lee (
Buni
,
Fodrey
)
H-N
P-Z
Haley, Alex,
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
(
Dotson
)
Hamburger, Michael (
Morris
)
Hampl, Patricia (
Bascom
)
Harris, Rochelle (
Fodrey
)
Harvey, Steve (
Harvey-Spagna
)
Hazlitt, William, "On the Pleasure of Hating" (
Bradley
)
Healing (
DuncanGerhardt
,
Guedet
)
Heilker, Paul (
Brooke
)
Heise, Ursula (
Case
)
Hemingway, Ernest (
Louth 1.1
,
Cowser
)
Hemley, Robin (
Buni
,
Wilson
)
Herndon, Scott (
Brooke
)
Hesse, Douglas, "Who Owns Creative Nonfiction?" (
Fodrey
)
History (
Borich
)
Hoagland, Edward, "Lament the Red Wolf" (
Galbraith
)
Hoagland, Edward, "What Turtles Can Teach Us" (
Galbraith
)
Hormachea, Carroll (
Morris
)
Howells, William Dean (
Morris
)
Hughes, Langston, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" (
Olivas
)
Humor Writing (
Bloom
,
Harper
)
Hunley, Tom C. (
Fodrey
)
Identity Studies (
Olivas
)
Immersion Journalism (
Fodrey
,
Hustis
)
Insight (
Koesters
)
Interdisciplinary Studies (
Diehl
)
Interview (
Basiletti
,
Daniels
,
Hoffert
,
Martone
,
Streckert
,
Wilson
,
Brorby
,
Buntin
,
Folkins
,
Babine
,
Atwan
,
D'Aoust
,
Griffin
)
Ireland (
Nerney
,
DuncanGerhardt
)
Jackson, Wes,
Becoming Native to this Place
(
Wilkinson
)
James, William (
Harvey, M.
,)
Jargon (
Koesters
)
Jay Z,
Decoded
(
Dotson
)
Johnson, Lacy M., "On Mercy" (
Robillard
)
Johnston, Devin,
Creaturely
(
Wilkinson
)
Journalism (
Hustis
)
Journals (
Morrill
)
Kapil, Bhanu,
The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers
(
Wilkinson
)
Kapuscinksi, Ryszard (
Buni
)
Karr, Mary,
The Liars' Club
(
Dusto
)
Karr, Mary,
The Art of Memoir
(
Dusto
)
Kerouac, Jack (
Fertel
,
Bascom
)
Kimball, Naomi (
Buni
)
Kincaid, Jamaica,
A Small Place
(
Brown
)
Kingston, Maxine Hong,
The Woman Warrior
(
Borich
)
Kitchen, Judith (
Harding Thornton
,
Harvey-Spagna
)
Kitchen, Judith, "The Circus Train" (
Harvey-Spagna
)
Klaus, Carl (
Buni
,
Dotson
)
Klosterman, Chuck (
Brooke
)
Knopp, Lisa (
Brooke
,
Bellinger-Delfield
)
Kooser, Ted (
Harding Thornton
,
Kostenbaum, Wayne (
Brooke
)
Krakauer, Jon (
Bloom
)
Kroll, Barry (
Brooke
)
Kuusisto, Stephen,
Eavesdropping
(
Koesters
)
Lacan, Jacques (
Sagor
)
Lanham, J. Drew,
The Home Place
(
Case
)
Lamb, Charles (
Brooke
,
Madden
)
Langer, Suzanne (
Bloom
)
Language (
Harding Thornton
,
Koesters
)
Latino Studies (
Olivas
)
Latimer, Kristi (
Brooke
)
LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole (
Buni
)
lectio divina (
Howes-Smith
)
Leisure Studies (
Morris
)
Lethem, Jonathan (
Gilbert
)
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4.2 Articles
>
Megan Brown, "Testimonies, Investigations, and Meditations: Telling Tales of Violence in Memoir"
Corinna Cook, "Documentation and Myth: On Daniel Janke's How People Got Fire"
Michael W. Cox, "Privileging the Sentence: David Foster Wallace’s Writing Process for “The View from Mrs. Thompson’s”
Sarah Pape, "“Artistically Seeing”: Visual Art & the Gestures of Creative Nonfiction"
Annie Penfield, "Moving Towards What is Alive: The Power of the Sentence to Transform"
Keri Stevenson, "Partnership, Not Dominion: Resistance to Decay in the Falconry Memoir"
4.2 Conversations
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Interview with Jericho Parms (4.2)
"Containing the Hidden Lives of Ordinary Things: A Conversation with Seven Authors"
Amy Monticello, "The New Greek Chorus: Collective Characters in Creative Nonfiction"
Stacy Murison, "David Foster Wallace's 'Ticket to the Fair'"
Emery Ross, "Toward a Craft of Disclosure: Risk, Shame, & Confession in the Harrowing Essay"
4.2 Pedagogy
>
Sonya Huber, "Field Notes for a Vulnerable & Immersed Narrator" (4.2)
W. Scott Olsen, "In Other Words" (4.2)
Past Issues
Journal Index
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Author Index
Subject Index
1.1 (Fall 2014)
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Editor's Note
1.1 Articles
>
Sarah Heston, "Critical Memoir: A Recovery From Codes" (1.1)
Andy Harper, "The Joke's On Me: The Role of Self-Deprecating Humor in Personal Narrative" (1.1)
Ned Stuckey-French, "Our Queer Little Hybrid Thing" (1.1)
Brian Nerney, "John McCarten’s ‘Irish Sketches’: The New Yorker’s ‘Other Ireland’ in the Early Years of the Troubles, 1968-1974" (1.1)
Wendy Fontaine, "Where Memory Fails, Writing Prevails: Using Fallacies of Memory to Create Effective Memoir" (1.1)
Scott Russell Morris, "The Idle Hours of Charles Doss, or The Essay As Freedom and Leisure" (1.1)
1.1 Conversations
>
Donald Morrill, "An Industrious Enchantment" (1.1)
Sonya Huber, "Amazon Constellations" (1.1)
Derek Hinckley, "Fun Home: Change and Tradition in Graphic Memoir" (1.1)
Interview with Melanie Hoffert
Interview with Kelly Daniels
1.1 Pedagogy
>
Robert Brooke, "Teaching: 'Rhetoric: The Essay'" (1.1)
Richard Louth, "In Brief: Autobiography and Life Writing" (1.1)
1.2 (Spring 2015)
>
1.2 Articles
>
Kelly Harwood, "Then and Now: A Study of Time Control in Scott Russell Sanders' 'Under the Influence'" (1.2)
Diana Wilson, "Laces in the Corset: Structures of Poetry and Prose that Bind the Lyric Essay" (1.2)
Randy Fertel, "A Taste For Chaos: Creative Nonfiction as Improvisation" (1.2)
Lynn Z. Bloom, "Why the Worst Trips are the Best: The Comic Travails of Geoffrey Wolff & Jonathan Franzen" (1.2)
Ingrid Sagor, "What Lies Beside Gold" (1.2)
Catherine K. Buni, "Ego, Trip: On Self-Construction—and Destruction—in Creative Nonfiction" (1.2)
Conversations
>
Doug Carlson, "Paul Gruchow and Brian Turner: Two Memoirs Go Cubistic" (1.2)
Patrick Madden, "Aliased Essayists" (1.2)
Beth Slattery, "Hello to All That" (1.2)
Interview with Michael Martone (1.2)
Spotlight
>
Richard Louth, "The New Orleans Writing Marathon and the Writing World" (1.2)
Kelly Lock-McMillen, "Journey to the Center of a Writer's Block" (1.2)
Jeff Grinvalds, "Bringing It Back Home: The NOWM in My Classroom" (1.2)
Susan Martens, "Finding My Nonfiction Pedagogy Muse at the NOWM" (1.2)
Pedagogy
>
Steven Church, "The Blue Guide Project: Fresno" (1.2)
Stephanie Vanderslice, "From Wordstar to the Blogosphere and Beyond: A Digital Literacy and Teaching Narrative (Epiphany Included)" (1.2)
Jessica McCaughey, "That Snow Simply Didn’t Fall: How (and Why) to Frame the Personal Essay as a Critical Inquiry into Memory in the First-Year Writing Classroom" (1.2)
2.1 (Fall 2015)
>
Editor's Note2.1
Articles
>
Daniel Nester, "Straddling the Working Class Memoir" (2.1)
Sarah M. Wells, "The Memoir Inside the Essay Collection: Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth" (2.1)
Chris Harding Thornton, "Ted Kooser's "Hands": On Amobae, Empathy, and Poetic Prose" (2.1)
Steven Harvey & Ana Maria Spagna, "The Essay in Parts" (2.1)
Megan Culhane Galbraith, "Animals as Aperture: How Three Essayists Use Animals to Convey Meaning and Emotion" (2.1)
Conversations
>
Barrie Jean Borich, "Deep Portrait: On the Atmosphere of Nonfiction Character" (2.1)
Tim Bascom, "As I See It: Art and the Personal Essay" (2.1)
Adrian Koesters, "Because I Said So: Language Creation in Memoir" (2.1)
Interview with Simmons Buntin (2.1)
Mike Puican, "Narrative Disruption in Memoir" (2.1)
Pedagogy
>
Bernice M. Olivas, "Politics of Identity in the Essay Tradition" (2.1)
Ioanna Opidee, "Essaying Tragedy" (2.1)
Crystal N. Fodrey, "Teaching CNF Writing to College Students: A Snapshot of CNF Pedagogical Scholarship" (2.1)
W. Scott Olsen, "Teaching Adventure, Exploration and Risk" (2.1)
Christian Exoo & Sydney Fallon, "Using CNF to Teach the Realities of Sexual Assault to First Responders: An Annotated Bibliography" (2.1)
Special Conference Issue
2.2 (Spring 2016)
>
Articles
>
Micah McCrary, "A Legacy of Whiteness: Reading and Teaching Eula Biss’s Notes from No Man’s Land" (2.2)
Marco Wilkinson, "Self-Speaking World" (2.2)
Miles Harvey, "We Are All Travel Writers, We Are All Blind" (2.2)
Ashley Anderson, "Playing with the Essay: Cognitive Pattern Play in Ander Monson and Susan Sontag" (2.2)
Lawrence Evan Dotson, "Persona in Progression: A Look at Creative Nonfiction Literature in Civil Rights and Rap" (2.2)
Conversations
>
Julie Platt, "What Our Work is For: The Perils and Possibilities of Arts-Based Research" (2.2)
William Bradley, "On the Pleasure of Hazlitt" (2.2)
Jie Liu, "'Thirteen Canada Geese': On the Video Essay" (2.2)
Stacy Murison, "Memoir as Sympathy: Our Desire to be Understood" (2.2)
Pedagogy
>
Stephanie Guedet, "Feeling Human Again: Toward a Pedagogy of Radical Empathy" (2.2)
DeMisty Bellinger-Delfield, "Exhibiting Speculation in Nonfiction: Teaching 'What He Took'" (2.2)
Gail Folkins, "Straight from the Source: Primary Research and the Personality Profile" (2.2)
3.1 (Fall 2016)
>
3.1 Articles
>
Chelsey Clammer, "Discovering the (W)hole Story: On Fragments, Narrative, and Identity in the Embodied Essay" (3.1)
Sarah Einstein, "'The Self-ish Genre': Questions of Authorial Selfhood and Ethics in First Person Creative Nonfiction" (3.1)
Elizabeth Paul, "Seeing in Embraces" (3.1)
Jennifer M. Dean, "Sentiment, Not Sentimentality" (3.1)
3.1 Conversations
>
Interview with Robert Atwan (3.1)
Jody Keisner, "'Did I Miss a Key Point?': A Study of Repetition in Joan Didion’s Blue Nights" (3.1)
Julija Sukys, "In Praise of Slim Volumes: Big Book, Big Evil" (3.1)
Lynn Z. Bloom, "The Great American Potluck Party" (3.1)
Jenny Spinner, "The Best American Essays Series as (Partial) Essay History" (3.1)
3.1 Pedagogy
>
Heath Diehl, "The Photo Essay: The Search for Meaning" (3.1)
Sonya Huber, "James Baldwin: Nonfiction of a Native Son" (3.1)
Christian Exoo, "Using CNF to Teach the Realities of Intimate Partner Violence to First Responders: An Annotated Bibliography" (3.1)
John Proctor, "Teachin’ BAE: A New Reclamation of Research and Critical Thought" (3.1)
Richard Gilbert, "Classics Lite: On Teaching the Shorter, Magazine Versions of James Baldwin's 'Notes of a Native Son' and Jonathan Lethem's 'The Beards'" (3.1)
Dawn Duncan & Micaela Gerhardt, "The Power of Words to Build Bridges of Empathy" (3.1)
3.2 (Spring 2017)
>
3.2 Articles
>
Jennifer Lang, "When Worlds Collide: Writers Exploring Their Personal Narrative in Context" (3.2)
Creighton Nicholas Brown, "Educational Archipelago: Alternative Knowledges and the Production of Docile Bodies in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and Marjane Satrapi’s The Complete Persepolis" (3.2)
Nicola Waldron, "Containing the Chaos: On Spiral Structure and the Creation of Ironic Distance in Memoir" (3.2)
Charles Green, "Remaking Relations: Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates Beyond James Baldwin" (3.2)
Joey Franklin, "Facts into Truths: Henry David Thoreau and the Role of Hard Facts in Creative Nonfiction" (3.2)
3.2 Conversations
>
Thomas Larson, "What I Am Not Yet, I Am" (3.2)
Amanda Ake, "Vulnerability and the Page: Chloe Caldwell’s I’ll Tell You In Person" (3.2)
"Interview with Gail Griffin" (3.2)
Alysia Sawchyn, "On Best American Essays 1989" (3.2)
3.2 Pedagogy
>
D. Shane Combs, "Go Craft Yourself: Conflict, Meaning, and Immediacies Through J. Cole’s “Let Nas Down” (3.2)
Michael Ranellone, "Brothers, Keepers, Students: John Edgar Wideman Inside and Outside of Prison" (3.2)
Emma Howes & Christian Smith, ""You have to listen very hard”: Contemplative Reading, Lectio Divina, and Social Justice in the Classroom" (3.2)
Megan Brown, "The Beautiful Struggle: Teaching the Productivity of Failure in CNF Courses" (3.2)
4.1 (Fall 2017)
>
Editor's Note
4.1 Articles
>
Jennifer Case, "Place Studies: Theory and Practice in Environmental Nonfiction"
Bob Cowser, Jr., "Soldiers, Home: Genre & the American Postwar Story from Hemingway to O'Brien & then Wolff"
Sam Chiarelli, "Audience as Participant: The Role of Personal Perspective in Contemporary Nature Writing"
Kate Dusto, "Reconstructing Blank Spots and Smudges: How Postmodern Moves Imitate Memory in Mary Karr's The Liars' Club"
Joanna Eleftheriou, "Is Genre Ever New? Theorizing the Lyric Essay in its Historical Context"
Harriet Hustis, ""The Only Survival, The Only Meaning": The Structural Integrity of Thornton Wilder's Bridge in John Hersey's Hiroshima"
4.1 Conversations
>
Taylor Brorby, "On 'Dawn and Mary'"
Steven Harvey, "From 'Leap'"
J. Drew Lanham, "On 'Joyas Voladoras'"
Patrick Madden, "On 'His Last Game'"
Ana Maria Spagna, "On 'How We Wrestle is Who We Are'"
4.1 Pedagogy
>
Jacqueline Doyle, "Shuffling the Cards: I Think Back Through Judith Ortiz Cofer"
Amy E. Robillard, "Children Die No Matter How Hard We Try: What the Personal Essay Teaches Us About Reading"
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