Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. How To Move Your Body

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    July 17, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Sutton Strother   Shower, and put on pants. You don’t have to leave the apartment. You can spend an …
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  2. The Flaw

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    July 17, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Hope Henderson   Would this story work better if I said that he hit me? What if I told …
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  3. How to Do a Close Reading

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    July 17, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by B.J. Miller   Read your mother with a pencil in hand. Your left hand. The hand she would use …
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  4. Orange

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    July 17, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Susan Bloch   In the pedestrian street of my local London market, I close my eyes and rub my …
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  5. 3 Slivers

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    July 17, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Sarah Wernsing   1. Evening at the river, we are here too late. We skip rocks, watch plash and …
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  6. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    May 2, 2018 by The Citron Review

    Perhaps one of the most important functions of literature is to help us deal with uncertainty. Authors may not set …
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  7. Monsoon City

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    May 2, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Dani Redd   The rains are late this year. The city, in the throes of an extended summer, throbs …
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  8. Solve for X

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    May 2, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Jackie Sizemore   The train spits us out into Normandy. We’ve arrived safely despite having the wrong ticket, and …
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  9. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    December 21, 2017 by The Citron Review

    Last quarter, my co-editor, Zach Jacobs, introduced our selections with his reflections on worldwide natural disasters, starting with the view …
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  10. Baton

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    December 21, 2017 by The Citron Review

    by Ben Greenlee   Ben Greenlee’s piece, “Baton,” includes a graphic and text, so we have linked to a PDF …
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IMAGE: Painted scroll: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu)
IMAGE: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu) (Yokoi Kinkoku 横井金谷) , 1985.791,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2025