Issue #8, 1997
Mostly Memoir
This issue, Creative Nonfiction’s largest to date, features intimate stories that forge a bond between reader and author. Andy Solomon takes us back into his childhood, when he was caught smoking cigarettes in the basement of his Sunday school; Alec Wilkinson brings to life the irony in the way people look at modern art; Kay Morgan, a psychotherapist, writes about what she has learned from eight years of listening to her patients loose their emotional difficulties on her.
“Mostly Memoir” also features previously unpublished excerpts from “An Album Quilt,” by John McPhee.
This issue is out of print.
Table of Contents
FROM THE EDITOR: Anatomy of "An Album Quilt" Excerpt Lee Gutkind ... read more
At a Turn in the Road Lucy Wilson Sherman ... read more
Like a Flower of Feathers or a Winged Branch Ellen Gilchrist
The Story of My Father Phillip Lopate
Transit K. E. Ellingson ... read more
At the Buzzer Michael Berberich
Radio Wars, Closed Doors, When You're Out I Check Your Drawers Elizabeth Hodges
Original Friend Donald Morrill
Vanish Away Like Smoke Andy Solomon
Bloodtalk: Daynotes of a Psychotherapist Kay E. Morgan
Cy Twombly Alec Wilkinson ... read more
Home Kathryn Rhett
An Album Quilt John McPhee
COVER TO COVER: Reviews of New Books
Contributors
Michael Berberich
Michael Berberich has had several essays about gambling and public policy published in Notre Dame Magazine and has had an essay about... read more
K. E. Ellingson
K. E. Ellingson prefers reading to writing and only writes because she secretly believes that if she doesn't, her head will fill up with... read more
Ellen Gilchrist
Ellen Gilchrist lives in a stone and glass house built into the east-facing side of the hill in the Ozark Mountains. She reads and writes... read more
Elizabeth Hodges
Elizabeth Hodges is an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University where she teaches nonfiction writing at both the... read more
Phillip Lopate
Phillip Lopate's nonfiction books include essay collections (Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body); film criticism... read more
John McPhee
For more information please visit, http://www.johnmcphee.com read more
Kay E. Morgan
Kay E. Morgan is a psychotherapist who has written in journals for 40 years. She teaches journal writing at conferences around the country... read more
Donald Morrill
Donald Morrill's prose and poetry have appeared in a number of magazines, including Grand Tour, New Virginia Review, The Southern Review,... read more
Kathryn Rhett
Kathryn Rhett is an assistant professor at Gettysburg College. Her poems have been published in The Antioch Review, Ploughshares and... read more
Lucy Wilson Sherman
Lucy Wilson Sherman received her MFA in creative nonfiction from Goddard College. She completed a full-length memoir called "Laying... read more
Andy Solomon
Andy Solomon was born in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., educated at the University of Pittsburgh, and teaches at the University of Tampa where he... read more
Alec Wilkinson
Alec Wilkinson is the author of ten books, including "Big Sugar" and "A Violent Act". Since 1980, he has been a writer on the staff of the... read more
