Tag Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. “Banking Day” by Edward Hopper

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Merry Speece   December, and here I am, just moved in, and I need a new bank account. I’d …
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  2. She’s Italian

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Allyson Armistead   We flew down I-74 toward the tornado, ignoring state officers and traffic cones and cloud—now hemophiliac—now …
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  3. The Wild Things

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Melba Major   My earliest memory is of watching the 1931 version of Frankenstein with my father when I …
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  4. Downtown

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Louis Bourgeois   Downtown Hanoi                              …
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  5. Peach

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Chelsey Clammer   There, south of the half-moon sliver of a fingernail. My sight pools on the blood drooling …
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  6. Cafe Society

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Nick Sweet   ´Wht ws the lecture bout?´ ‘It´s concerned wid the taxonomy of taxophily n Pope´s work.´ ´Did …
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  7. Neighborhood Watch

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Ray Shea   A dead hummingbird lay in the road like a broken Christmas ornament, lustrous green wings against …
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  8. What I Look for in a CNF Submission

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    October 31, 2011 by The Citron Review

    Wit, creepiness and awkward intimacy. I love memoir that contains emotional risk like Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir Chronology of Water and …
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  9. How to Survive the New York Asshole

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    March 16, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Rachel Hurn   Move to New York. New York is where assholes live and where non-assholes go to become …
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  10. Losing Them

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    March 16, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Talya Jankovits   I lost track of how many of them I lost before I conceived her in a …
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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