Creative Nonfiction – Page 19

Story First, Author Second: Drawbacks of Judging Literature By An Author’s Character

Analysis, Creative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Open Channel / By a featured contributor

Orson Scott Card, known for his award-winning novel Ender’s Game, has achieved unusual notoriety for a bestselling author. While many readers praise Card’s writing ability, they sometimes struggle promoting his work since they disagree with his views on gay marriage. Gay rights activists have boycotted Card’s work on multiple occasions, successfully keeping a Superman story […]

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Donna Leon

Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Open Channel / By Malcolm McCollum

While crime fiction has gained some respect over the past twenty years, it’s still usually pigeon-holed as “genre fiction,” or some other label that signifies “not literature.” If “literature” is whatever certified English Professors think it is, then I’m qualified to disagree with the pigeon-holers. I don’t often use the term “literature,” but if I

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Ranked Things and the Ranking Rankers Who Rank Them

Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Gary Walker / By Gary Walker

A few years ago, the Swedish Academy awarded Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature for his poetic contributions in American music. Good for Bob, I say. I’ve been a fan ever since I first heard Blood on the Tracks at the age of twelve. Not so good for Bob, as it turns out. As

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Dreamer

Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Perspective for Hire / By a featured contributor

As my daughter Stella gets older, I sometimes think back to my childhood. The very young years are often a blur. I do remember feeling loved and safe and being filled with wonder. My earliest memory is from about four years old, I would guess, and I am in the front room of the first

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Our Green Heritage: Heirlooms & Hothouses

Creative Nonfiction, Greenwoman, Nonfiction, Writings / By a featured contributor

Winter is a dangerous time of year for a gardener. The catalogs feature rediscovered heirloom seeds with gorgeous sounding names: Dragon’s Tongue beans, Crimson Curtain and Banana Leg tomatoes, Painted Serpent cucumbers, King of the North peppers. They sound like legends and poetry. The herbs sound like characters from old fairy tales with names like

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Shocking Discoveries Brought to Light

Analysis, Creative Nonfiction, Jerome Parent / By Jerome Parent

I don’t know which woke me first, the bright light or the loud boom. What I do know is that the combination scared me out of sleep and out of bed. The hair on my nine-year-old arms was standing straight up as I ran into the living room where my father was holding his newspaper

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