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Issue 14.1

Fall 2012

Editor’s Notes by Daniel W. Lehman

It’s been an exciting stretch at River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative—highlighted by our inaugural national conference. For three days in May, writers gathered in Ohio from across the United States for readings, workshops, manuscript evaluations, and late-night skull sessions about the best of nonfiction writing and why facts matter. Continue reading . . . 

Contents

“Captain Love” Jerald Walker  ◆  “Three Sketches After My Dad’s Death” Joshua Wolf Shenk  ◆   “Hurricane” Karen McElmurray  ◆   “Writing & Publishing a Memoir: What in the Hell Have I Done?” Andre Dubus III  ◆  “DO Not Read Out Loud” Laurie Rachkus Uttich  ◆  “The Shooter” Eli Sanders  ◆  “Wild Ducks” Richard Gilbert  ◆   “The Things Our Fathers Loved” Leslie Stainton  ◆  “Notes Towards the Definition of an Essay” Robert Atwan  ◆  “Barriers” C.D. Mitchell  ◆  “Selling Out in the Writing of Memoir” Lee Martin  ◆  “Where Now Is” Kathleen Blackburn  ◆  “Always a River” Robert Vivian
Contributors’ Notes . . . 

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