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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
Leave a commentSeptember 25, 2018 by The Citron Review
One of the characteristics that I find most exciting about the personal essay is its malleability. “Malleable,” coming from the …
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Notes on the CNF Selections
Leave a commentJuly 17, 2018 by The Citron Review
As a student in a creative nonfiction track of an MFA program, I floundered, as many of us did, …
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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
Leave a commentMay 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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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
Leave a commentDecember 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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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
Leave a commentOctober 2, 2017 by The Citron Review
As I write this, I look out my window on the downtown Houston skyline. I see the George R. Brown …
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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
Leave a commentJune 22, 2017 by The Citron Review
Subtext. In The Art of Subtext, Charles Baxter describes the term as “the unspoken, the suppressed and the secreted.” A …
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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
Leave a commentApril 17, 2017 by The Citron Review
In The Citron Review’s Spring 2017 issue, Marianne Cirone and I are glad to present “Salt,” by Laurie Ember, “Wasted …
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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2016 by The Citron Review
Precision is one of many things that we look for in submissions at Citron. Precise, controlled language is important in …
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Notes on the CNF Selections
1October 3, 2016 by The Citron Review
Our lives are full of triumphs and tragedies, both large and small, personally and globally, which become the stories we …
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