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Nonfiction

Nonfiction
Walking in Time
by Timothy Ferris
Once, when young and proud, I tried to grasp the enormity of the past.
Story of the Week
Wedlock, Gridlock, Liplock
by Pia Z. Ehrhardt
We’re tired. In bed, we hold hands. We watch TV. But do you want more?
Nonfiction
What Would You Have Me Do?
by Pia Z. Ehrhardt
We’d never had a cross word, but I’d never corrected him.
Anthology
We’ve Been Here Before: Stories in a Time of Plague
by Various Authors
Nonfiction
Whale Shark
by Rick Bass
We pull up alongside the great body. The fin marks the spot.
Features
Writing in October
by Rick Bass
The slow-falling leaves contain the space of the story I’m pursuing.
Interviews
What Makes a Good Story Great
by Garry Marshall
Lori & Garry Marshall
Nonfiction
When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse
by Lynn Freed
What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?
Story of the Week
When I Come to Be Old
by Jonathan Swift
When I come to be old, I resolve not to tell the same story over and over.
Story of the Week
When I Knew Stephen Crane
by Willa Cather
If he could not evade a serious question by a joke, he bolted.
Story of the Week
When You Can No Longer Talk about It, You Have to Sing
by Irene Keliher
I had forgotten how to breathe, and then I learned again, all at once.
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Nonfiction
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
by Abraham Brennan
The onus is on you, because you care about your car and your life.
Nonfiction
White Fish
by Lynn Ahrens
There isn’t a nice Jewish boy in sight—not that I’m looking for one.
Story of the Week
Why I Was in Vietnam
by John Balaban
I was opposed to the taking of human life. I was opposed to all war.
Story of the Week
Will and I
by Clay Byars
When the doctors’ voices started turning to noise, I didn’t fight it.
Nonfiction
Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady at One Hundred
by Maureen Corrigan
This is a novel that contains more than its actuarial share of falls.
Story of the Week
Wino
by Josip Novakovich
Give him a bottle of red wine. You’ll be his best friend right away.
Features
Works in Progress
by Kira Petersons
Classics
Writing
by W. H. Auden
Literary gatherings are a nightmare because writers have no shop talk.
Winter Contest Winners
Year of the Great Voyage
by Alex R. Jones
Our eyes searched for the island, but ahead there was only overcast.
Story of the Week
Yeats on Wilde
by William Butler Yeats
“The basis of literary friendship is mixing the poisoned bowl.”