Issue #49, Summer 2013
Survival Stories
Our summer issue is devoted to hair-raising stories of near misses. Writers reflect on narrow escapes from a plane crash, youthful recklessness, and a train barreling down on the station.
The rest of the issue is a writer's survival guide, with notes on making dialogue work, a love letter to literary letters, Roxane Gay on the dangers of disclosure, and a visual guide to the personal essay. Plus, we're stalking Philip Roth.
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What's the Story by Lee Gutkind
From the Editor -
Picturing the Personal Essay by Tim Bascom
A visual guide -
Man on the Tracks by Erika Anderson
"When you watch a man on the tracks before an oncoming train, that’s exactly what you do: watch." -
The Danger of Disclosure by Roxane Gay
Cultural criticism online -
Finding Fragments in Details
An interview with the issue's illustrator, Sam Pash
Table of Contents
From the Editor Lee Gutkind ... read more
Picturing the Personal Essay: A Visual Guide Tim Bascom ... read more
The Saltwater Twin Maia Morgan
Why I Remembered What I Remembered Angie Chuang
The Hippest Bar on Christmas Chris Offutt
Man on the Tracks Erika Anderson ... read more
Locked Out Betsy Sharp
White-Space Memoirs: The Power of Artful Dodging Beth Kephart
The Spoken Word, Distilled: Notes on Philip Roth, Bernard Cooper, and crafting compelling dialogue Suzanne Hegland
Writers, Be Kind! Justin Moyer
Literary Letters: Correspondence as Art Anthony Aycock
The Danger of Disclosure Roxane Gay ... read more
No One Lives Here Genevieve Anna Tyrrell
Zuckerman Found Jon Reiner
Contributors
Erika Anderson
Erika Anderson is an editorial assistant at Guernica and teaches for the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared or... read more
Anthony Aycock
Anthony Aycock has written essays for The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, ONLINE, National Paralegal Reporter, and Community &... read more
Tim Bascom
Tim Bascom’s memoir Running to the Fire (University of Iowa Press, 2015) is about his missionary family leaving the town of Troy,... read more
Angie Chuang
Angie Chuang is the author of The Four Words for Home. She is an assistant professor of journalism at the American University School... read more
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay lives and writes in the Midwest. She is the author of several books including a collection of short stories Difficult Women... read more
Suzanne Hegland
Suzanne Hegland teaches writing at New England Conservatory, contributes to The Huffington Post, and coaxes high school students through... read more
Beth Kephart
Beth Kephart is the award-winning author of thirty books and dozens of essays, an award-winning adjunct at the University of Pennsylvania,... read more
Maia Morgan
Maia Morgan is a past winner of Glamour magazine’s Real-Life Story Essay Contest and finalist for Fourth Genre’s Steinberg... read more
Justin Moyer
Justin Moyer, an editorial aide in the Outlook section of The Washington Post, will graduate from Goucher College’s creative... read more
Sam Pash
Sam Pash is an Australian illustrator who currently lives in London. He uses both traditional and digital methods in his work but... read more
Chris Offutt
Chris Offutt grew up in Haldeman, Kentucky, a former mining town of two hundred people. He has published five books about people from the... read more
Jon Reiner
Jon Reiner is the author of the memoir The Man Who Couldn't Eat and a recipient of The James Beard Foundation Award for Magazine Feature... read more
Betsy Sharp
Betsy Sharp has worked as a social worker, teacher, artist, and off-grid homesteader. She lives on a small island in the Pacific Northwest. read more
Genevieve Anna Tyrrell
Genevieve Anna Tyrrell recently finished her MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of Central Florida. Her thesis utilizes different... read more
